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Originally Posted by reconmike
You and RB are absoultly correct, but the "in" thing to do on this board is to try and pin as much crap on Bush as is possible, it has turned into a looney left rah-rah place where someone can cut and paste anything to prove their point and the rest will post cheers and follow right along.
From personal opinion this presidency is a great success,
the value of my home has doubled, my investments and retirement savings have grown, I bought a buisness which is thriving, and I havent had anyone try and blow me up in 5 years.
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I think you missed the point. Bush may be guilty of a lot of things, and some of those things may even be grounds for impeachment, but calling his Presidency a "success" or a "failure" is something that no one here can really do. None of us can foresee how the decisions made are going to pan out. Unless you have a crystal ball that you haven't been sharing, it's impossible to tell if the "surge" (for instance) is going to have the expected impact.
Personally, I think that it's probably too early for historians be making judgements on the Clinton administration, but that's me.
dc_dux, while I'm certain that the GMU was conducted in a scientific manner, I don't see how "historians" are any better able to label this presidency a success or failure when it's still going on. Historians spend entire careers breaking down the minutia of events of a presidency to understand how it worked. That information isn't available yet, so those asked could only be working from the same information that the rest of us have. They aren't in any better position to make a judgement on this presidency than the mythical "man in the street". Also, if they asked my Russian History professors, half of those folks are going to be lucky to remember who the current president is, let alone tell you if he's doing a good job or not. Yet they're still "historians" even though both of my advisors only had minimal understandings of American history. Sorry, but you're citing something that can only be a garbage survey.