Today...

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While i agree that in the future, towards the end of our lives or probably even when we're al dead and gone, Bush will be remembered in a more positive light (he has to, he can't go anywhere but up for christ's sake.) but i don't think his situation will mirror Lincoln's. Bush won't be thought of as one of the greatest presidents, i think he'll reach 'okay' at best. Lincoln also won the war he started, remember. Bush's war cannot be won.

Um, I don't know if you've noticed but Iraq has been turning around for a wihle now and is a success. Besides that, the nature of the two conflicts are totally different: Lincoln let Grant cut a path of destruction through the south in an all-out effort to put an end to things, while Petraeus has to contain and reform an insurgency while training natives to do the police work themselves in a region that's been divided into sectarian sides for centuries. If anything, the difference here would favor Bush.

I'd also say that Bush has made a great accomplishment in assigning Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. They won the decision over 5-4 in the recent ruling on handguns and the Second Amendment - if not for them then another part of our constitutional rights to protect ourselves would have been chipped away. I know people like to say that Bush disregards the constitution, but presidents have always had exception when taking action for purposes of national security and it's the Court that actually rules on what is constitutional. Seriously, the dissenting opinion over the 2nd Amendment case was lead by Justice Breyer who wrote, "In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas." If you're not permitted to have the weakest type of firearm loaded in your house even in "crime-ridden urban areas" according to 4 of the 9, then all I have to say is thank God that Bush won a second term and I really hope McCain wins this election because another two Justices are going to need replacing in the coming term.