George Bush, the misunderestimated optimist
Check this out from Dan Froomkin’s column in the Washington Post:
Look on the Bright Side
And in yet another exit interview, Bush tells Tara Wall of the Washington Times about the upside to the current economic crisis: “One aspect of these recent times that has been overlooked is the fact that the price of gasoline has gone down from near $4 to under $2, which is stimulative, because people have got nearly $2,000 on an annualized basis in their pocket — that’s $2,000 per family — as a result of gasoline going down,” Bush said. “That’s stimulative.”