Excuse me, I just woke up from a 8 year coma. Can someone update me on what's been going on in America?

As a bush supporter, the last thing I remember was him on the campaign trail in 2000 advertising himself as a "compionate conservative", a "reformer with results", and "a uniter not a divider" He looked into the camera, squinted his eyes, and in his most manly voice, whispered "leadership...". That drove con males like me wild. He said he would bring "honor and integrity" to the White House, that he was "against nation building", that America needed "a humbler foreign policy", and mocked Al Gore's claims of "peace and prosperity".