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The great New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asks a pertinent question.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we dare to hope that the Bush administration is finally at an end?\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the lead in her column published in today\u2019s NY Times. The rest of it is attached:<\/p>\n

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President Obama had to spend a great deal of his first term trying to explain how \u2013 in his mind \u2013 the nation plunged so deeply into its fiscal mess. He also had to explain why he believed the Iraq War was wrong. <\/p>\n

He did so quite deftly by reliving over and over the presidency of George W. Bush, who recently opened a presidential library and museum at the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas.<\/p>\n

But now that he\u2019s been re-elected and is beginning his initial descent toward the end of his presidency, Barack Obama finally can finally stop referencing the Bush presidency when it suits his political needs, said Dowd.<\/p>\n

I cannot really blame him for the tactics he used to win re-election. Indeed, the Republicans thought they had Obama right where they wanted him: struggling to right an economy that crashed and burned at the end of the Bush administration and which Obama sought to correct with some hasty stimulus measures that drove the national debt and deficit into the next universe.<\/p>\n

You know what? The Obama Economic Plan appears to be working. <\/p>\n

Thus, there\u2019s no more reason to blame President Bush for failed policies. <\/p>\n

Oh yes, there\u2019s the war thing too. The Iraq War has come to something resembling a conclusion, although bombs are still killing civilians in Iraq. The Afghanistan War is drawing closer to an end, but we\u2019ll still have troops there even after our combat role has been taken over completely by Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s answer Dowd\u2019s question. Yes, the Bush administration has ended. Now let\u2019s allow historians to determine its place.<\/p>\n\n

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