Your post expresses exactly how I feel about President Bush, although I got to that point about 3 years earlier. I was pretty anti-Bush early on in his first term, but then 9/11 happened, and I was really jolted into a new state of political being: Like him or not, George W. Bush was my President, and the President of the whole damn country. I really, really tried to give him the benefit of the doubt in his handling of the war on terrorism. That lasted about 6 months.

After developing a certain level of animosity towards someone, it is very difficult to be "fair" after that. I have long since reached that point with Bush. I am incapable at this point of giving him the benefit of the doubt on his good intentions, his competence, his honesty. That isn't a good position to be in, I know.