>To be honest even if I'm open minded, I can't come to think of anything significant positive that reached the news up here.
Keep trying. I'm sure you could.....

>Under his administration we had.
>- The most disasterous financially run administration. And they call themselves fiscal conservatives, Ha !
Agreed. Combined with the spending spree that our Congress started, we now have a record deficit and debt that my gradchildren's taxes will be paying off.

>- A financial crisis because of lack of regulation in the house market
Some politicians (R) recently tried to regulate and/or change the lending 'rules' that were thrust upon the financial industry about 10 years ago by other (D) politicians. The changes were defeated in congress.

>- The death of american kapitalism
Huh?

>- A economy in distress
Because of the financial crisis. So many everyday financial decisions are influenced by the news media reporting how bad things are. It become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

>- 2 Wars were we did not get out anything, costs billions
Multiply that by 1000: Trillions. Let's check with the common citizens of the middle east about what 'we got out' of this war, and interview the returning soliders about what they were able to do for those common people. A valid question is wether the cost-benefit ratio was too high.

>- Torture of prisoners (violation of human rights)
Were any rights of the 3000 people who were in the World Trade Center area on 9-11 violated? By definition, enemy combatants who become POWs have fewer rights than citizens.

>- The Disaster of New Orleans
If the Republicans have the knowledge and power to control the weather, why did we vote them out of office?
Oh, you may be referring to the response to the Disaster. Local government agencies are the first responders; the federal government follows up with support for the cleanup and rebuilding efforts. Nevertheless, NGOs (most with funding and labor provided by religious group volunteers) are the primary source of restoration and rebuilding efforts for private citizens.
Ah, the dikes around the 9th Ward - we should have had the Dutch come in and do a design/build contract. They really know so much more about managing ocean waters in low-lying lands. Instead we send a huge pile of federal tax money to the (D) state and local government in Louisana and New Orleans and had them oversee the contracts to design and then more contracts to build and upgrade those dikes. Let's follow that money and see where it went.

>- Rejection of Kyoto or any other environment agreement
It was -19 degrees farenheit here this morning. Where's global warming when you need it?

>- Rejection of the international court in The Hague
Can't comment since I've never heard or read about it.

>- A world wide declining appreciation of the US
Is this a Nice guys vs. Good guys comparison? I'd rather be the Good guys that fought injustice rather than the Nice guys who got pushed around.

>So even if I need to mentioning something positive:
I knew you could!

>1. He made the US people realise that you need an IQ to be a decent president. They made them see that the republicans delivered the most incapable administration ever !!
IMHO the IQ was always there - the delivery was less than polished. I'll wait for history to judge how capable or incapable Bush 43 was relative to other presidents of this era.

>2. He gave Obama a huge list of things that can only improve
We need to define improvement. Is government run medical insurance an improvement? Will my taxes increase? That might be acceptable if my total out-of-pocket for medical costs drops. Past experience with government programs suggests otherwise.

>3. A cheap dollar
And don't forget what he did for the price of oil in the last four months of 2008! My price at the pump is less that 1/2 of what it was 6 months ago.