A few modest predictions:

1) As the world grapples with the economic downturn, especially the inability to fathom the long-term effects of radical changes in finance and investment of the 1990s, George W. Bush will seem less and less culpable for the events of September 2008.

2) As President Obama continues to give interviews as he did on Al-Arabiya or begins to offend some as is necessary when a President conducts foreign policy, George Bush will seem less and less a divider abroad.

3) As Obama talks more and more about the mess he inherited, how intractable the problems are, and how unfair the press, the opposition, etc. are, battered but stoic George Bush will seem more and more sympathetic.

4) And as the Bush stimulus morphs into the largest Obama debt plan and money-printing operation in history, and as the Democratic congress rushes to use the (“don’t let a crisis go to waste”) panic to enact European socialism, George Bush nostalgia will grow . . .