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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (182266)	2/13/2012 9:02:10 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 544137

Yes. But W made me nostalgic for his father more than Nixon, a distant memory. I didn't like GHWB when he was president, but looking back, he was overall pretty good. Had the guts to walk away from "read my lips", and the first Gulf war was a gritty and focused operation that I don't think anybody else could have pulled off as cleanly. Plus the US made money on the deal. He was a true public servant. "Best man for the job" Clarence Thomas still pisses me off, but Souter proved to be pretty reasonable. After reliving 9/11 a bit last night through the Discovery Channel thing I plugged in Message 27945032 I thought, not for the first time, of the contrast between GHWB's reaction to the Kuwait invasion and the years of W's 9/11 24/7 act. Of course, GHWB had the advantage of an administration that wasn't seeded full of neocons by master infighter Dick Cheney, but W had enough public support post-9/11 that he could have actually been "a uniter not a divider" if he wanted. Instead, he gave free reign to the neocons' geopolitical fantasies and Rove's masterful "with us or for the terrorists" politicization. I can't quite hate W either, but I think of the pictures of GHWB hacking his way through a round of golf in the rain in the fall of 1990, clearly preoccupied with what he had to do, and W's regularly scheduled nap time all through his terms, and I wonder how those two could be father and son.