Summing it up

In the seven years that I've been the President we've had a recession, corporate scandals, the 9-11 attack, major national disasters...uhhh...two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--all that created was uncertainty. Each one of those instances. We've been able to come through it because we've been resilient.
-President Bush 1/8/08
(Via DCeiver ala HuffPo)

Let this be his monograph. And heavily caveat the resilient bit. He gets no credit for it.