Would your opinion on Bush would've been different if......

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I remember a thread a few years ago suggesting "Don't you wish Bush was still in power?" in regards to Barack Obama. Obama isn't a special or a particularly good president, but by comparison to Bush, he is somewhat of a good direction. There are some really toxic elements in American politics and these fester and grow considerably worse under Republican leadership and interference.

Obama is mediocre as far as presidents go and everything he will be remembered for happened between 2008 and 2010. American politics is the result of a combination of disenfranchisement and apathy. I have no idea how so many people could utterly fail at being citizens. The worst thing I hear all the time is when people over 50 bring out the phrase "I can't stand all these ultra liberals and ultra conservatives in government" as if Obama and Boehner are either. It shows how little people pay attention to the details and prefer to think of politics in broad strokes. That's what toxic in American politics.

Clinton was actually a relatively good president by American standards and since Hillary is more the brains of that operation, I think Hilary next might be a good call since I can already guess what the Republican candidate will be saying, and it is generally frothing at the mouth with some neo-con warmongering screw-everyone agenda, especially since 'Romney' took a lurch to the far-right during his campaign and he was punished by the Republican echo-chamber as too 'moderate' still ! They won't make that mistake again, going to start seeing some real nutjobs...

Clinton rode on the coattails of the personal computer reaching a mass market, but at least he didn't do anything to hinder that. I don't care for Hilary because I think she will pick all the wrong battles and make the Democrats look foolish and play into the Republican PR machine.

Who knows who the Republican nominee will be. Part of me thinks the Republican primaries can't be as hilarious as the Cain, Bachman, Paul, Perry train wreck of 2012, but I still hope 2016 will give plenty of fodder for the Daily Show.