re: #168 SanFranciscoZionist

The man got his thumb caught in the doorjamb of history, and you gotta give him props for a lot.

This is not to say I will ever be a George Bush fan, but he did the best he could, as Molly Ivins reminds us, all our presidents do.

That’s worth remembering. He didn’t imagine having to deal with Radical Islam as the defining issue of his presidency. 9/11 was so huge that it changed the course of his administration and meant that it is precisely than struggle which defined the presidency of George W. Bush.