OK, everybody, let’s pile it on.

Are you unhappy, in debt or at a job you hate?

Blame George Bush.

Afraid of facing the horrible job market when you graduate?

Blame the whole Bush administration for the economy’s downfall.

It’s so easy.

You can even use your extensive knowledge of presidential history to say he’s the worst president we’ve ever had.

Hey, we’re old enough to have paid attention to at least two of 43, right?

So let’s join the feeding frenzy, and watch as it gets worse.

I recently saw it on a YouTube video taken from David Letterman’s show, when he counted down the top 10 “un-presidential” George Bush moments.

There are clips of Bush patting his wife on her rear, bumping his head on a helicopter and spitting over his shoulder, major-league style.

(For the record, there’s no un-presidential video of Bush smoking a cigarette, as President-elect Barack Obama does.)

To me, these videos seem like reasons to appreciate the man.

They show him as a normal person, just another dad from the neighborhood.

Four years ago, it was these very images that got him re-elected, but those days are gone.

What changed?

When did the Bush-bashing reach new lows (matched only by his downward spiraling approval ratings)?

In addition to never having been good with words, I think Bush was further cursed with being the first president who had to deal with the YouTube and Internet revolution.

It was a pretty lethal combination, but I bet there’s still more to it than that.

It now seems we have many reasons to dislike him, and we rattle them off with ease.

When we hastily cite the Iraq invasion, we are equally quick to forget that it was backed by a large majority of those in Congress, including other respectable figures such as Colin Powell.

When we blame Bush for the economy’s collapse, we pay no attention to the fact that the average credit card holder is thousands of dollars in debt.

After all, it’s easy to curse the president while ignoring the idea that our spending got out of control, and it finally caught up with us.

We even blame him for troubled foreign relations, too.

Never mind that many of the people who hate us now will feel the same regardless of who leads us.

Will Obama really deal any better with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

I doubt it.

Sure, certain leaders may like dealing with Obama better, but they will always do what is in the best interests of their own countries, interests that rarely line up with our own.

So before you spit on his picture for one last time, take a step back.

Ladies and gentleman, the man is about to take his final curtain call, and it seems he’s well aware he’ll only hear a few awkward, offbeat attempts at respectful applause.

You can see it in his most recent interviews, where he acts like he knows his “Bring-em-on” arrogance paralyzed his presidency.

And it did.

His failure to admit his mistakes built a towering wall between himself and the American people, something that often happens when we lose faith in our leaders.

I wouldn’t take another term from George W. Bush if he offered me a cabinet position and a corner office in the White House.

But one man can’t be the root of all evil, and history shows that we have a habit of looking back on presidents in a softer light once they’ve been out of office for a while.

So direct all that pent-up anger elsewhere.

Today, we can’t foresee the results of his administration’s actions that will determine how he’s viewed 30 years from now.

All we can do is press on to the future, and that future starts next Tuesday.

Who knows? We may come to miss having a president who picks a stance on an issue, and sticks to it.

Let President George W. Bush fade into history, and see how it treats him.

- Marc McAfee is a senior from Kennesaw majoring in broadcast news.