Lame Duck Legacy

George W. Bush was supposed to be a president schooled in consensus building and tough, effective management.
However, the first chief executive with a master’s in business administration — from Harvard, no less, — and the son of a president known for his foreign-policy expertise is leaving President-elect Barack Obama a nation that’s arguably in the worst shape since Herbert Hoover left Franklin Roosevelt the Great Depression and a world in which fascism was on the march 76 years ago.
While scholars estimate that it takes at least a generation before a president’s legacy can be analyzed objectively, many already are unflinching in their assessment of Bush — and it’s not favorable.
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