so Katie,.. Bush the short one had eight years to "reverberate" and fix it if we follow your thinking.
 He made it worse. 
It`s not like little Georgie didn`t display leadership qualities, choking as a guard jet pilot, getting special dispensation while violating his contract with the guard to get out of the draft.  And it wasn`t that he was an alcoholic/cokehead in college. 
No wonder Obama inherited a eight year train wreck from Bush.