Thanks for a hard job, well done. I can agree with most of what you said. I think that something was left out.

Bush was in over his head, manipulated by others, and the "hard decisions" were made based upon emotion and ego. He did as well as he could, with vigor, pursuing his agenda.

Where we differ is that I do not believe his agenda was the welfare of America and it's people. I believe his agenda was to further the interests of his constituency, the wealthy and the mega-corporations.

So, there's a not-too-bright cheerleader consumed with his own ego trying to appear calm, cool and collected, which to him was a smirk, pressured by very clever men and women, trying to fit a complex world into a narrow ideology, and not succeeding. Because he believed his own propaganda, millions and millions of people are suffering.

I can admire the effort but not that for which the effort was expended.

Arf