…but now we measure it by months. Obama may indeed write GW’s legacy, which neither intended…at least the way it will likely turn out. GW had a few flaws, but he was magnificently American, as you pointed out so well. Thanks for the reminder. Glad to see you back in the saddle.

I, for one, am really looking forward to his memoir.

…is becoming the receptacle of longing by the American people.

But you don’t really appreciate character until you see the absence of it. We’re seeing that now.

http://thehayride.com/2010/09/the-bush-nostalgia-is-growing/

shows the kind of down-to-earth, homespun smarts that Obama will never have.

a lefty jab, the idea to show how stupid GWB is that he didn’t know world leaders by name (one of the very oldest lib memes). But if so, even that just happens to backfire right now with the English. They are, most of them, very concerned that they are ceding national sovereignty (including Magna Carta and 1689 Bill of Rights rights the EU and its weird special courts presided by Frenchmen and Croats. All under umbrella of “EU universal rights” for which Belgium and Brussels are the symbol and HQ. So it happens that that comment by GWB, right at this particular time to the majority of English, looks extremely wise, observant and dead on. Or as they say, *bang on. * Their press told them for 8 years how stupid he was but I dare say the same recovery of respect for Bush and Blair is starting to happen there as it did here recently.

Bush couldn’t name the President of the European Council and we’re supposed to think that’s a GOOD thing?

Ignorance of European leaders and EU structure does not, in any way, explain respectability. The poster conflates the bravado and superiority exuded by President Bush’s with leadership and strength.

Regardless of one’s personal feelings about the policies and overall effectiveness of the current man in the White House, it is foolish to vilify his every action. Likewise, one should not simply assume that because President Bush did it, it is necessarily the right way.

We should expect our leaders to be knowledgeable of the people and systems that their policies impact. In this instance, President Bush’s ignorance of a major aspect of European politics fails to live up to that expectation.