And don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!

In all fairness to former President Bush, he is right. History may me judge him very different. Let's face it, Harry S. Truman wasn't so popular at the end of his term, but people have recognized him as a good, but not great, President. Nixon dominated the last half of the 20th Century, just as Sen. Bob Dole said.
I think the only President to receive a mulligan is John Adams, because he was sandwiched between Washington and Jefferson. That's like being George Lazenby in the Bond movies. Even the 1980-81 cast of Saturday Night Live had Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy.
So, will history judge Bush more fair?
Only time will tell. A Presidency is judge by who comes before and who follows after.
Clinton was sandwiched in between two Bushes. (Okay, I'm not going to elaborate with a pun here.)
Anyway, the Bush/Cheney administration might be seen as either a quasi-Fascist dictatorship or a stepping stone. We don't know what will happened in the next generations or so.
But, I want to honestly know, whether conservatives and Republicans would have gone so light on Gore if he had been President.
If, the Sept. 11 attacks, happened on Gore's watch, would people have been willing to pass the Patriot Act?
Would you have been willing to enforce stricter guidelines on FFA regulations and more or less being forced to strip before getting on an airplane?
Would you have questioned if Gore had done away with Habeas Corpus?
Would you have been repulsed by the actions at the Abu Grahib prison?
Would you have allowed our government to detain people, without charges, at a Gitmo, on suspicions of having terrorist links?
Also, how would you have liked it if Gore's press secretary told people they needed to watch what they said after 9/11?
These are the problems people like me had with the Bush/Cheney administration. We let the terrorist win by acting this way.
It's just like George Orwell's 1984.