jps wrote:
What a bittersweet moment it was watching GW and crew lift off for
Texas. I wanted to savor the moment but couldn't wait for his
departure.

The King is dead, long live the President.

We have not seen such class in a departing President for many years. If
I remember right clinton did not even attend the event. President Bush
lead and made his decisions from the facts, and did the right thing;
which was not always what his detractors wanted.

He got blamed for many things, one of the most outrageous was when the
officials in Louisiana would not request federal assistance until it was
to late. Because of State's Rights issues President Bush could not
respond and was blamed for not responding fast enough. However the US
Coast Guard was there before the winds died down rescuing people from
the storm.

I hope that obama gets a spine before it is to late and tries to
measures up to President Bush. It would be a pity if the first black
man to be President turns out to be a total failure and pushes this
country into another 8 years of depression as the democrats did in the
1930's