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An ailing America awaits Bush's successor - by Robert L. Jamieson Jr.

Whichever candidate eventually wins the White House faces a world of woe, courtesy of a Bush administration that can't exit stage right fast enough. Leftover trouble will come at the next president -- "at 100 miles per hour, like a cannonball to the chest," said Congressman Jim McDermott of Seattle, who made the rounds in town last week.On Jan. 20, 2009, the fresh quest begins -- a new president's push to cure America on its sickbed.