I like Bush

Many "know-it-all" pundits (and an even larger number of opinionated "know-nothing" folks) have declared Bush to be the worst US president in history.

Perhaps a certain perspective is in order. Bush is nowhere near as ineffectual, incompetent, or divisive than, say, Franklin Pierce (I bet 99% of Americans don't even know this guy), Warren Harding (Bushisms are nothing compared to this description of Harding's writing: "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh."), or Andrew Johnson (who had been called a "fervent white supremacist" among other things -- although he's not directly elected, so we can probably give Johnson a bit of a break).

I don't know about you people, but I like Bush and I believe he did a much better job than the more vocal critics are claiming.
I'm not going to expound on his accomplishments, or to argue on his performance as president -- I'll leave that for posterity to decide.
As much as I am hopeful and optimistic on a coming change, I'd really hate to see someone viewed by many as (almost) the next messiah turn out to be worse than W...