Quote Originally Posted by Tom523 View Post
President Bush has served as president of our country during it's most difficult times.
This is the only part of this post I really disagree with. I agree that President Bush gets bashed a lot more than he should, but this country's "most difficult times" so far are NOT, IMHO, the present. WWII and the Great Depression would be number one and two on my list. On second thought, put the Civil War on top. What we're going through now is a trifle compared to any of those three. We lost 53,000 in Vietnam. Does anything happening today compare to that? Not that any great president got us out of there, but I would call that a more "difficult time" than any of Bush's presidency. I might not quibble with calling him "good," but when you compare what he's done to what others accomplished, I just don't see how you can justify calling him a "great" president. Personally, I think he's been mediocre at best.

And BTW, Richard Nixon damaged the reputation of the presidency a heckuva lot more than Clinton ever did.