Read some of the statements written about Lincoln during his Presidency. Leaves me very wary about opinions current historians have about President Bush. I remember from my undergraduate history classes. You cannot judge current events that have not become history. It takes time to see events in their historical context. Now all these contemporay historians know that so their opinions really don’t matter.
I also remember hearing in history class how the Press poo-poohed his Gettysburg Address as being provincial, narrow-minded, embarrassing to our foreign allies and some such. The more I learned about Lincoln in that class, the more I started comparing him to Bush. They are basically the same two people, just of different times.