Will the Bush Presidency be a Katrina Fatality

[mburbank]

I think the hostoric view of polarizers is where they stand at the end of their work.

FDR? Polarizer. Led us out of the great depression and through WWII victorious. Doesn't matter if you think he did all that or even got in the wway of it. He was in the driver's seat.

Nixon? Polarizer. revisionists will talk all about China and Detente, but he'll always be the guy who had to resign.

If three years from now there's any indication of democracy in the middle east, we're less in the trhall of oil than we are now and the citizens of New Orleans are still living in stadiums, Bush may well be hailed as a great leader. If the country looks the way it does today I think he will be seen as the President who squandered the most good will any president ever had.