[Hoot Gibson]

Only one comment I would say on Bush, on appeasing our enemies. He just wasted, all of the time he was in office spending the money on the wrong enemy, knowing it was nothing to do with Hussein. Clinton left office telling him Obama was a threat and needed to be dealt with. Hussein put a hit out on his father, and that was more important to him. Cheney ran that show, and you saw where that got us. Bush couldn't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. Jeb was the only other Bush that needed to see the White House.

Hussein did far more than put out a hit on GHWB. He slaughtered tens of thousands of Iraqis and shoved them into mass graves. He paid bounties to the surviving family members of Palestinian suicide bombers who targeted Israeli and Western targets. And he refused to abide by the terms of surrender to which he agreed following the Gulf War, and the UN resolutions that required him to cooperate with weapons inspectors. Even top members in Iraq's government believed that it had WMD, because Hussein wanted Iran to believe it and because he did not trust his inner circle of advisers.

BTW, when Clinton left office, the Obama threat to this nation had not yet materialized. Clinton was not a bad president, especially when compared to Carter and Obama, but he new Bin Laden was a serious thread and he failed to take action to eliminate that threat when he had the opportunity. The 9/11 attacks took place after five years of planning.

Bush and Clinton were average presidents who tower above both Obama and Carter in terms of performance. Bush's biggest blunder was overreacting to the financial crisis and making it worse by agreeing to the bailout (which then Senator Obama and Senator McCain also supported).