This is a journal entry that makes its author feel good about himself but doesn't have much connection to reality. It's Frank Barnes' opinion, and that is all. He is in a distinct minority that still believes that the Bush tax cuts have kept the economy from tanking even more deeply than it has. It's irrational to find nothing good to say about a man whose political talents outshine Clinton and even Reagan. Roosevelt and Lincoln were dead before I was born, so I won't invoke them. It's absurd to claim that "Obama specializes in knocking down straw men" when the real champion of that tactic was G.W. Bush. We are not facing straw men, they are more like concrete men, and none of them have been even badly chipped so far. The last administration never cared about "fiscal prudence" as far as I know, and if you don't call the Iraq war and the bailout "spending sprees", then I don't know how I can stand on the same bridge with you. This article is nothing more than gratuitous and passionless character assassination. At least, unlike the NYPost, Barnes so far refraining from suggesting physical assassination.