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To: Lane3 who wrote (71773)	6/12/2008 9:27:05 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543025

It's a subjective judgment in the end. Just about every president since JFK is frequently rehashed in public one way or another, thanks to memoirs of those near them or tapes of their actual conversations. In coming years, I expect we will learn much, much more about the Bush administration that will stir controversy and anger. For now, however, it is sufficient for me to note the political and foreign policy failures and use them as a yardstick for the next president's performance. IOW, the book on Bush will stay very open for me, for important analytical reasons (even though I don't think he was the WORST president ever, just among the bottom tier).

To: Lane3 who wrote (71773)	6/12/2008 9:47:51 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543025

From my angle it seems that enough is way past enough. And there's a whole new world out there. I think you underestimate just how much rancor many folks still feel over how the war in Iraq was sold. The situation has not yet been resolved and I think the bitterness will linger until there is closure.

To: Lane3 who wrote (71773)	6/12/2008 9:54:43 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543025

One of the reasons it doesn't go away is because you still read from the RW how no one said anything back then and that people are just Monday morning quarterbacking. And when the president actually validates something you, a mere musician, wrote five years ago, before the invasion, it feels good- in a bad sort of good way. As to the new world out there, I agree. Which is one reason I am hesitant to accept McCain's FP. It remains to be seen if he gets that new world, or is still a part of Bush's old one.