And What Did You Expect Him to Say?

Karl Rove on the last eight years:

He didn't get everything right -- no president does -- but he got the most important things right. And that is enough.

The Bush Presidency made mistakes, but to this glass-half-full person things could have been a lot worse. On September 12, 2001, if you had said that seven years later there would have been more no more deaths from terrorism on American soil, that the economy would have entered a severe recession only within the past year, and that oil prices would be moderately higher (meaning that the Middle East hadn't blown up in the meantime), I would take that deal.