#33 Programmer

“Bush and his advisers, much as I liked a lot of what they did, made no effort to explain the situation we (as a country) were in to those who were not foreign policy junkies.”

The single greatest failure of his presidency. A close second was not aggressively pursuing remedies to the imminent housing bubble because he was afraid that Barney Frank and others would accuse him of racism.

To have the bully pulpit and not use it is almost criminal. May the next center/right president have the wisodm and charisma to do so effectively.