The article linked below asks whether "Bush will be the next Truman." Why would anyone possibly care about the 'legacy' of a president? Could there be anything less relevant to a free man than how history of a politician will be written? We already know exactly what will be written by 'history' - anything and everything, as suits the needs of the authors.
There is one group with an interest in gaining our interest on this topic - those who wish to ensnare as participants in 'their' party. They benefit when we delude ourselves by thinking any political aspirant is serving anything greater than their own ambition.
By our human need to identify with those in power, we seduce ourselves to care about them as if they mattered in some special way. This does us great disservice by displacing those who really do matter in our lives - our friends, family and those in our circles of influence and/or control.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-12/will-bush-be-the-next-truman/?cid=bs:archive5
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