Kean's defense of ABC's so-called docudrama includes statements that scenes, charecters and ideas are "composites". ABC has also admitted that it uses compositites of charecters and time distortion to tell the story.
It's painfully clear what they mean by this. They're compositing the Bush and Clinton administrations. And by compositing, I mean they're renaming the Bush administration into Clinton's.
If I were the current president, I would jump wholeheartedly behind this film. As far as Bush's legacy is concerned, the best he can hope for is that he'll be composited with the presidents he is sandwiched with.
When historians look back at this section of history, do you think that they'll take 8 years of awesomeness under Clinton, 8 years of ultra-suck under Bush and 8 years of awesomeness under the Democratic president following him and average it out, calling it a quarter-century of mediocrity? I somehow doubt it.
The best that can be said of Bush is that he's not quite as bad as his harshest critics say he is. There was a lengthy letter to the editor in my local newspaper today berating the paper for not spending enough ink apologizing for running the Valerie Plame story back when everyone thought that Bush's team was responsible for the leak. I want to find the woman who wrote it and say to her, "Ok, he's not a traitor for THAT . . .let's move on to the list of 87 other reasons he's a traitor to America."