Here is my prediction: Obama I is going to look like Bush III

(Pres. Bush and PM Blair at The White House a few days ago. Blair and Bush, a couple of guys who governed rather than read polls!)

Memo to the world.

Memo to the anti-Bushies.

Memo to all of those who were silly enough to believe that "hope and change" was actually coming.

Let me recommend that you check out Prof. VD Hanson's latest post.

The professor calls it Bush III:

"What is new about this transition, or at least relatively new—unlike the Carter-Reagan, Reagan-Bush, Bush-Clinton, and Clinton-Bush change-overs—is that an entire sector of the country has been convinced by an intellectual establishment—in the media, universities, foundations, the fringes of the Democratic Party, the arts, Hollywood, etc.—that Obama arrives to end quasi-fascistic rule and radically change U.S. foreign policy to win back over the world's good will.

But when we look at actual specifics and ignore the boilerplate mainstream liberal rhetoric about "multilateralism" and "rebuilding our alliances," and also ignore the "inside" horror stories (cf. the recent Vanity Fair Bush hit-piece) by failures and opportunists like a Scott McClellan or Matthew Dowd, we really do not see very much."

So what will BO's first term look like?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER is back with another good one:

"Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.

Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds — the tacit endorsement conveyed by the Obama continuity-we-can-believe-in transition.

It's not just the retention of such key figures as Secretary of Defense Bob Gates or Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner, who, as president of the New York Fed, has been instrumental in guiding the Bush financial rescue over the last year.

It's the continuity of policy.

It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this week in Baghdad, adheres to the Bush-negotiated status of forces agreement that envisions a U.S. withdrawal over three years, not the 16-month timetable on which Obama campaigned.

It is the great care Obama is taking in not pre-emptively abandoning the anti-terror infrastructure that the Bush administration leaves behind"

And last but not least:

"The very continuation by Democrats of Bush's policies will be grudging, if silent, acknowledgment of how much he got right."

The good news is that Bush III is a few days away.

The bad news, for Dems, is that Obama will be Bush III.