Interesting thoughts I guess about presidents... I'm not sure how you reconcile them with reality though? I suppose PERCEPTION BECOMES REALITY and then someone can over look FACTS, and that might be part of it.
For example:
Bush was already winding down the Iraq "post war" festivities. It really wasnt "war" anymore except to anyone actually over there. But the fact that Bush started the surge, defeated the AQI and then started drawing down troops... how does BHO get to claim that as not needing to call home for body armor? The troops under his command have NEVER been in that position. So, it's a false assumption or false leap of logic at best.
Also, Patriot Act? can you tell me about any single experience YOU have had that was negatively impacted by the Patriot Act?
FORGET The generalizations and the broad sweeping brush strokes... "I was snooped on and I didnt know it and it's a violation"... skip all that...
TELL US!!: what has the Patriot Act taken from you in tangible form?
I dont know a single person who has ever been able to say they lost ANYTHING tangible from Patriot Act, but I know there are a LOT of Americans who are still alive today who were NOT victims of a series of terrorist attacks on more buildings and adding bridges and tunnels.
Because honestly... I'm not against snooping on people that want to blow up buildings regardless of what country they are in, let us not forget that the terrorist cells that pulled off 9/11 were here for a long time, and in a couple occasions even surfaced on the radar!!!! but no attention was paid. now it's a 9/12 world. yeah, I'm okay with being snooped on if I trigger a whole bunch of alerts about wanting to blow up the government or country.
now lets talk about inflation and your order of the presidents? how does Clinton who rode a WAVE of dot-com idiocracy which was destined to burst get to claim he's some kind of economist when he signed even more lesilation that created the housing bubble burst as well?
that of course created initially by Carter with the Community Reinvestment Act.
your choices are your choices, and welcome to them of course, but I dont think I can agree with how you got there on them...