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Bush: Last night and the legacy

 

Published 11/5/2008 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

The NY Daily News' Goodwin: "It now seems from the ice age, yet it was only four years ago that President Bush was basking in his election. ... Thanks to two unfinished wars and an economic meltdown, Bush's legacy is the historic landslide election of an inexperienced Barack Obama and a liberal-led Democratic Congress determined to undo every shred of the last eight years. Bush leaves his own party defeated and demoralized." ...( read more ) (link)

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