MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…Not to kick the president on his way out the door, but he was wrong when he told White House reporters at a wistful, nostalgic news conference yesterday that ‘there is no such thing as short-term history’. It’s true that some presidencies look different after a few decades. But it’s also true that presidential acts can have immediate consequences — and that George W. Bush will leave office next week as a president whose eight years in office are widely seen as a nadir from which it will take years to recover….”…BS

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