Well, T-Bird, I really haven't had a lot of time to knock heads but, what the hey...
Yeah, the world has had lots of problems for a long, long time and, no, they didn't all come about in the last 4 years. However, my friend...
... just consider the the following hypothesis:
Whereas George Bush didn't create many of the problems he has confronted, he has been *too* decisive and *too* deliberate in trying to find solutions. He is not a *thoughtful* person by nature and this is not what is needed for the president of the world's only super power. He gives in too easily to those who are not capable of seeing anything as either balck or white... Well most of the problems are mired in grayness and thus not problems that a "black-n-white" thinker can solve. We see this in just about evert policy area Bush tends to take *extreme* positions rather than positions where *compromise* has been an important element of the policy decision.
Now I don't blame Bush entirely fir his failures though he gets a good share of the blame. But he is also a victim of a failing political system that has evolved into a system of polorization, intolerance and gridlock... Could he change it? Well, maybe and maybe not. But after seeing just how damaging a winner-take-all mentality is to the US and the world in general, it needs changing.
One thing I can credit Bush for doing. During his campaign he said that if he were elected he would change the *tone* in Washington. He has done that. The last time is was so bad was during the McCarthy days... And that's pushing 50 years...