Buddy, I didn’t mean 6 years before Clinton, I meant “in the 6 year period before Clinton”.

Character arc of USSR/Russia 1985-1991: Gorby, glasnost/perestroika, Berlin Wall falls, Soviet Union dissolves, Yeltsin. Trend obvious.

Now the present. We’ve gone from “I looked into his soul” to ever increasing thuggery to the present, and the atrocities can hardly be blamed on Bush, as many of them are of the domestic variety. You’ve built up a character, the story must end believably. An mass murderer doesn’t suddently reform and open a dance school. And Obambi doesn’t suddenly save the world from Armageddon.