“I think much of the economic prosperity of the last decade was set in motion in the 80’s”

I agree, but do you think for a minute that we’d be in the mess we’re in if Clinton was still president? Or that we’d be in the middle of this insane war if Kerry was president? Or that we’d still be relying oil drilling to get us out of this energy crisis if we had Gore?

It’s not so much the problems one gets dealt – it’s how you handle those problems. Is there one example of Bush showing any insightful leadership in the last 7+ years?

Bush is an embarrassment – a person of exceptional opportunities who thinks like a country bumpkin