Somehow I doubt that, especially if the president turned out to be the best ever. We don't live in a democracy, do we? We live in a Republic. Sure, we have some democratic processes, but we do not vote on everything, we elect representatives to speak for us. We do the same thing when electing a president. The Electorate was not made to prevent the "uneducated" from making mistakes. It was made to prevent small, densely populated regions of people from monopolizing the presidency. Before the Electorate was created, every president came from the NorthEast. the remaining states, which had very different needs (city folk didn't really care about farmers, as long as they got food), couldn't get representation. Do you understand mob and self interest mentality? The electorate allows each state to have the same power electing a president as they have representation in the House. In fact, each state has the same number of electoral votes as representatives. This is called balance. It also wasn't the first time it happened.
Contrary to popular belief, the Bush Admin is not the longest standing example. Congress is a much more colorful example of the problems with our current political landscape. It is also an example of what is wrong with us. Sports are always a great comparison to life. What sports do you like? Baseball? Football? If a team has no talent, will firing the coach somehow make the team better? Most of the time it doesn't, but it makes people feel like something is being done.
Barack Obama could be completely different from Bush and make things worse. You don't have the luxury of working with so many current and former military and police personnel. I know things that the public have not been able to filter out of the crap the media spews just to bash Bush adn support their own selfish agendas. I know of other things that have never been made public in order to prevent mass panic. Believe me, the focus on keeping Terrorists busy on as many fronts as possible is more necessary than you can even begin to realize, and I am not saying this to scare you. The fact that you are still able to be angry with Bush and feel so comfortable in life is proof that he succeeded in his number one agenda, to make America safe. If you look even closer, you will find that, before the dems gaffed the chance to rein in Fanni and Freddie in 2006, we had lower unemployment rates, higher revenues than the Clinton era, and an all time record stock market number. I keep hearing about tax cuts for the rich, but the way the tax cuts were structured, the top 30 % pay a higher percentage of the overall tax burden than they did under Clinton. Interesting, isn't it? It is proof that we can't help but be influenced by those on TV. They can make or break someone. I can't worry too much about it, though. Even you, Gorgon, kept the blame on Bush for 9/11 because it happened on his watch. I guess that means that Lincoln was even worse, because half the country SECEDED when he was president, and he presided over the only American Civil war! I imagine his popularity rate wasn't all that high at the time, either. The truth will come out eventually.