[pgkdan]

I agree with Bolton. Bush DID leave a mess. He signed TARP, signed every spending bill Congress could devise, got mired in nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan ( which I supported at the time but now regret) and sent the wrong message to the nation and the world a million times about 'the religion of peace'. But he was a damned sight better than any of the alternatives at the time.

I too think history will be kinder to W. than many of us now are willing to be and trying to run a campaign as an apologist for the Bush administration would be a very bad idea. This campaign has to be about the future. With Romney we may have one, with obama we won't.

[DManA]

He will be vilified by history as the last guy who had a chance to prevent the collapse of the US but chose to punt.