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So I am sitting here in my comfortable little
writing study high above the bustle of Manhattan’s
East Side contemplating, of all things, the legacy
of President George W. Bush. In a brief few
months, he will be gone from the public stage and
with his absence the vitriol, the
adrenaline-charged criticism, the often rabid
animosity of most of the people in my social world
will slowly diminish, and the memory of “W” will
slowly dissolve like a lump of sugar in the
liquidity of history.
I have channeled my reflections to be sober and
neutral, free of bias and contemporary judgments,
forcing a kind of emotional absence as I travel
forward in time to say fifty or more years from
now when all the smoke has cleared and George
Bush’s exploits as our President have been exposed
to the surgical ministrations of historians. It
will not be enough time for a complete closure,
for historians are a cunning lot and will continue
to dig and dig to unearth the yet unfound
discovery, the unknown kernel of a lost moment
that will shed some new light on the strange,
explosive and challenging eight years of the Bush
Presidency.
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