Legacy

I'm sure there's room for another

As I expected (and have posted about in the past), in Shrub's limited yet grandiouse (albeit flaccid) self-conception he's another Lincoln, or, at the very least, another Harry Truman...the latter having undergone a rather substantial historical reinterpretation over the last thirty years or so (to paraphrase a Hunter Thompson line, maybe the then new-found respect for Truman was actually more retrospect, considering what followed). Anyway...

Shrub can fantasize all he wants...but it STILL doesn't make him an Abe Lincoln...OR a Harry Truman, for that matter. No, I'm afraid the Chimperor will forever be placed in history's context alongside those who truly paved his way: James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce (an ancestor of Shrub's on BOTH his mother and father's side), Lyndon Johnson (though possessing neither Johnson's charm nor intellect)...and Richard Nixon (likewise not possessing any of Nixon's considerable skills, though virtually all of his flaws and then some).

Welcome to the club, Shrub. That said, humiliation is a pretty small price to pay, considering how much your administration has cost some people.