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I do not think Bush's second term was of much consequence. We were already up to our necks in Iraq. No one was serious about the growing Housing Bubble. Had they been, efforts to curb it would have begun in his first term, and they did not. Bush claimed he had the "political capital" to reform Social Security with his win over Kerry, and found his bag empty. Kerry would have followed essentially the same trajectory in those years. The only thing that would have been different with Kerry is that we probably would not now have Obama.
Now THAT offers some interesting hindsight
Doesn't it though? Instead of electing a credible Notbush, we'd have been looking for a Notkerry and probably have elected a Republican. McCain???? I wonder how that would have turned out.