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STANLEY FISH: Miss him yet? What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of th?

By Glenn Reynolds

STANLEY FISH: Miss him yet?

What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia. The responses (over 300 before the comments were closed) to that prediction were overwhelmingly negative; even the very few who agreed with me attributed what they took to be a sad fact to the stupidity of the American people. The other 290 or so said things like ?No way?; ?Are you kidding??; ?Are you mad??;?What a ridiculous and insulting premise!?; ?I?ll miss him like a rash?; ?This must be a satire?; ?Bush is a sociopath?; ?George Bush has destroyed this country?; ?History won?t forgive him?; and (a popular favorite) ?I hate the man.?

Well it?s a bit more than a year now and signs of Bush?s rehabilitation are beginning to pop up.

Thank Barack Obama. Some people already have.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).