fred:
It will be many years before the public’s perceptions of President George W. Bush change. Perhaps long after the current regime in the mainstream media has turned over. It won’t be the journalists who make the case for the President anyway. It will be writers who do their research and evaluate results and not political feuds.
Not even Richard Nixon was set upon so viciously as this President has been.

Bush will rise only if history veiws a small band of Islamists that killed a few thousand people in the West as a great enough crisis that Bush’s domestic disasters, his immigration and China policy can be ignored. His failing to act on anything other than reactively, and even then, sometimes stubbornly locking himself in for years with failed subordinates and failed policies. His lack of vision on how going trillions in hock to China to pay for Iraq and his tax cuts for the rich failed to advance America’s interests overall.
Just as importantly, the man failed to articulate his policies, even the good ones, and sold out those initiatives faster than he sold out the American worker.

Yep, if the threat of a gang of 6.000 stone age Muslims required an “American Churchill”, or the American Hedgehog that only knew ONE thing in an America that required a leader to know, comunicate, and lead on over a dozen things….well, yes, history may be kind. But maybe only in the sense the most Brits think of Churchill…he was indispensible for 1 year (1940), but other than that is known as an awful leader who is properly detested for a lifetime of terrible mistakes and misjudgments, who the UK would have been better off in the sum had he never lived.