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Few Tears Shed Over Bush's Departure

E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post | January 20, 2009

Apart for the brief wave of popularity in the aftermath of 9/11, Bush has ended his mandate leaving Americans disaffected. ++ Among the numerous mistakes he made, one of the biggest was his unwillingness to open dialogue with political adversaries to forge durable consensus. ++ His "my-way-or-the-highway politics" was at the origin of much criticism, including his policy in Iraq. ++"It is partly because of these failures that Americans reacted by selecting a successor with such a profoundly different political personality."