I know this way off topic 10 days before an election, so feel free to ignore, but if you want something else to discuss, I'm sort of "opinion-surfing".
I was still sort of young and apolitical when Bush 41 was in office as I skated through college. Clinton was my first vote in 1992, when I voted on the basis of the economy stinking after I graduated (I also remember I was appalled by our military action in Panama, but that was on the basis of a movie I saw about it with graphic footage, so I might have been swayed moreso back then just by the shock factor).
Anyway, I was having a political discussion yesterday with some older left-wing relatives, who pretty much hate everything Republican, and they have warmed up to George H.W. Bush a bit with time (the Gulf War coalition and navigating the diplomatic challenges of the Soviet Union collapse were the primary things they gave him credit for). Basically, the consensus was that as far as modern Republican presidents go, he wasn't all that awful. I was sort of surprised. One of them joked that the worst thing that he ever did was procreate.
Obviously, he's lumped in with Reagan as the Reagan-Bush years, so it is tough to separate him from his predecessor, who my relatives can't stand (primarily for starting the destruction of the middle class and fostering a selfish culture that we in many ways have never recovered from). But I was curious if the folks here who were more politically in tune during those years consider him no better than the other Republican presidents we've had in our lifetimes, or consider him somewhat tolerable, now that 20 years have passed.