I'm going to wholeheartedly agree with the second half of what you said. Bush wasn't a bad president, but in many situations he lacked something the leader of a major country needs- Balls. To stand up to his "advisors" when they advise him incorrectly, and to do what he believes is right. I believe that going into Iraq and Afghanistan was something he believed in, or he would've pulled out when America got angry at that decision later. And I am a little shocked that Obama hasn't pulled them out already, although I think the Iraqi government still needs our help so I'm glad.
The first part does sort of baffle me though. Fox never told anyone that we should be racists, nor did they report that Obama was a Muslim. And also, the ratings demographics prove that the proportion of Democrats and Independents/Moderates that watch them completely destroys the number of conservatives or Republicans who watch them.
And I still think, that fixing the economy and Washington can only be achieved by voting out all the senators and congressmen, and then impose limits on the number of terms, just like the president's. All the backdoor deals that they have made with companies have put them all in a big ass hole, and it takes new people who have fresh ideas to pull us out. Being a public
servant was never meant to be a lifelong career.