Victor Davis Hanson offers his take on GWB here. Somewhat more positive that Murdock's, offered below.
I've personally found the media coverage of the past few days absolutely intolerable. There's the swooning Koolaid-drinkers of the far left and mainstream media (pardon the redundancy), and the nitpicking nabobs of negativism on talk radio that are launching premptive strikes before the moving vans have unloaded. I'll match my VRWC credentials against anybody, but I'd at least like to see the ink dry on the cabinet papers before we get too carried away.
NRO has been somewhat of a refuge, providing both candid coverage of the outgoing administration, and surprisingly positive commentary on the new one, as old friend Jonah Goldberg writes here.
That being said, I do think this Geithner thing is going to come back to haunt BHO. He should have pulled the plug on this one. But that would have been too drastic of a change.
The final legacy of the second Bush administration will be the Obama administration, and we'll see what kind of legacy that will be. But whatever our complaints against the former president, we have to thank him for keeping us safe for 2,688 days, for dealing with a nearly incomprehensible crisis, and for making the tough decisions when the chances of success were slim. Thank you, Mr. President. May history judge you with greater fairness than your contemporaries.
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I Had to think when I saw the BHO in your blog. I'm sure that someone has already made this observation, but the president should welcome the use of his middle name or initial because otherwise we, and he, are left with B.O.
I agree with your assessment on the media coverage surrounding the innauguration of our 44th president. Question is, where are these people now that the honeymoon is over?
This president is having a hard time building his cabinet with law abiding citizens, the stimulus bill has all kinds of problems and all the while our country slips deeper and deeper into recession.
Keep in mind, the only entity that had an apporval rating worse the GWB's was the congress. So what did we do? - elected an inexperienced senator from said congress and expect him to be a mircale worker.
Our media set him up to fail. By portraying him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln or FDR, he was and is destined to fall short since he is nowhere near either of these former presidents.
His inexperience has already reared its ugly head and we are only one month in. Believe it or not, I am trying to keep an open mind, but its getting more difficult to do.
I have definitely had enough of allowing Nancy Polosi run the country.
I could go on!!
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