Exit, Pursued By History
How Bush treated Clinton and how Obama should handle Bush.
On the face of it, Obama might have less incentive to knock his predecessor off his presidential pedestal. Clinton ended his term with approval ratings in the sixties; even after Marc Rich outrage hardened into a season of Clinton fatigue, the public could compartmentalize tawdry behavior from competent presidential management. Bush, by contrast, is Mephistophelian in his unpopularity. Could some leaked post-inauguration allegation about his leaving the ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
I doubt that people will forget soon, and with congressional appproval ratings lower than Bush and Cheney the new administration needs support for, and participation in, a new modus operandi, not more of the political chicanery that has passed for government in the last 4 decades.