[RawAlex]

The history books usually refer to the major events of a presidency, and rate it based on the end results. Bush took over a country with a booming economy that was safe, at relative peace, with the NASDAQ at 5000+ and the Dow at 11,000 and everything was pretty much all right.

The last 8 years have been pretty much endless shit. While it can be argued that much of what happened wasn't specifically his fault, it happened and continued to happen under his watch.

Today, the NASDAQ is at 1649. The Dow is at 8451. Thousands of soliders have lost their lives and tens of thousands more have been injured fighting a foreign war, all over WMD that just were not there. The US is teetering between recession and depression, and risking losing it's super power position in the world, sliding back to third (or maybe fourth) behind the likes of China and Russia.

So yeah, when the history books are written, he will likely be the guy who mislead the US from feast to famine, from financial success to financial ruin, from super power to also ran. This will be the time in history where "everything changed for the worse".