ORIGINAL: Thor

Well in fairness to Bush you can’t completely evaluate him without understanding the actions of those who came before him either.  For example Clinton’s repealing of the Glass-Steagall act has a lot to do with the current economic predicament.  You cannot currently view Obama in anything but through the prism of what came before him either.

I do agree that given the intense partisanship behind everything, that any mention of Bush is bound to get the rabid right’s hackels up rather than aiding in the discussion

The irony is that Bush is now repudiated by the Right as a “Liberal” and faux-Conservative/Republican who was incompetent and screwed everything up – that is until some “Lefty” criticizes him, then he is the great action-hero Conservative and everything bad on his watch was actually caused by Clinton and Carter and all the other Dems/Liberals since Roosevelt.

Nothing like having it both ways.