Mark Noonan:

Future generations will marvel, I think, over the amount of invective directed towards a center/right American politcian who bent over backwards - some times to the great dismay of his core supporters - to be kind to his opponents. President Bush is a man of first principles, but also a man who is willing to work with just about anybody in order to get the business of America done. A Chrsitian in fact as well as name, he’s treated by his opponents as a spawn of perdition. And the oddest thing of it is that all of the invective - like Savage’s rant - has been pointless. President Bush is of that moral belief (so am I) that abuse by others - if suffered patiently and for the glory of God - is a thing to be thankful for. President Bush, courtesy of his opponents, has had 7 years of intense schooling in how to be patient - and, I’ll bet, also in how to pray for those who hate you. The only people harmed by all the lies and slanders against President Bush have been those who launched them - who have poisoned their own souls, and made themselves into worse people, day by day.

Read “Sunset for the Bush Era.”