>"the Left has rediscovered truthfulness as a virtue after 8 years of declaring it unimportant".......

That's a whitewash. A lot of people excused Clinton's sexual escapades, but didn't like him lying, even with a straight face. However, the end result of his blowjob were unfortunate consequences for him. Besides letting his family down, he had to bear national disgrace.
Bush's little white lies turned more than half the world against us, thousands have died or suffered horrible injuries and the cost of this unnessary war will take this country into a depression.

>"Kind of like they dusted off "chickenhawk" after leaving it on the shelf ".......

Clinton opted out and didn't evade his position on the Vietnam War....we knew that BEFORE he was elected. As a matter of fact, some of us thought it would be different to have a a "make love, not war" President. Someone with a conviction of peace.
Bush (however) had his records expunged and avoided all the sticky questions. And he showed up in top gun flight gear on a carrier deck which was pretty farcicle.
And most ALL his top aides in this administration (the ones who wanted WAR) were ALL chickenhawks.
We call them as we see them..

>"the first President Bush .........is utterly irrelevant to the discussion of the current President."

Heh! The family that preys together....you mean?
I really am enjoying how you conservatives are trying to defend the corner that Bush has painted himself into. Like a fallen hero.
Not yet, but it's coming.
Just can't get those socks clean, now can he?