No 911-like attacks since 911. Had to require some form of learning. Stuck with keeping taxes low to all income earners who pay taxes --> Pulled us out of that bubble of a recession following 911, that otherwise would have been significantly worse. The across-the-board income tax reductions also helped spurr unprecedented increase in Fed revenue. Something he obviously learned from when past presidents Kennedy & Reagan did so. <<And before you EVEN try to pull up national debt, the point of egregious out-of-control domestic spending by Government has been conceded. So that no matter how much increase the Fed gets in revenue, at the facilitation of across-the-board income tax reductions, if the Government still spends more than the increase taken in, there's going to be debt. That doesn't negate the increased revenue however, nor the unprecedenced low unemployment #'s as well.>> He also learned from the experience of Vietnam, that you can't micromanage a war across the globe from DC. he's allowing his commanders/generals on the ground make the tactical and strategic decisions & planning.
I mean, I could go on, but the point is, the only ones who think Bush is some incompotent moron, are those that largely thought he already was when he took the oath of office, in 2001. And nothing he did or will do, was going to change that way he "seems to them"