text: Totally irrelevant.  One of the lamest of the lame ducks, ever.  9-11 was the high point of his administration, without it he'd never have been re-elected, never able to play the FEAR card at will, never able to (temporarily) win the support of other nations....and never able to reach a roughly 85% approval rating.\n\nAnd then in a few short years later, BAM.  Zilch.  Endsville.  \n\nThe "war on terror" has only inspired more terror.  Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet (about 33% approving, and those are die-hard right-wingnut jobs) and many of his original cabinet have left.  His stance on Iraq and homeland security handed over Congress to the rival party.  Despite accusing John Kerry of flip-flops, he's welched on social security reform, immigration, steel tariffs, the Dubai Ports deal, and the justification for invading Iraq.\n\n3000+ American personnel are dead, in a war even Kissinger deems unwinnable.  The deficit is horrendous.  And many of his supporters are now tied to lobbying scandals or various other forms of tyranny or corruption.\n\nLong story short -- he's a joke we played on ourselves.  Hard to imagine Gore playing his cards as badly as Bush....but unfortunately, the cons had dominance in the Supreme Court and with the Florida Secretary of State at the time....otherwise I'd dare say we'd have seen a brighter existence and happier start to the New Millennium than this cheap sitcom of a Presidency.