Frosstbyte

The sad part, josh, is that it's worse than being disingenuous. For it to be disingenuous, W would have to have some concept of the fact that there is serious cognitive dissonance between the two decisions. He'd have to be lying to himself about one or the other for that to happen.

The problem I think most of us have with all this is that he lacks whatever wiring is necessary to make that fact apparent in his shriveled little brain. The man lives in some la la land alternate universe where the idea of being wrong ever can't happen. Bush lives in the instant and at this instant he is doing (in his very selective book) the right thing, as he did the right thing at the instant he "reviewed' those death penalty cases and as he did when he reviewed Iraq. The magic of being George W. Bush is that there is no future and no past, there's just now and he goes with his gut (or his advisers) every time.

The next two years in this country could be a very dangerous time and we're going to have some serious internal issues that need to be taken care of once Bush finally leaves office. Again and again I look at his possible successors and I simply don't know what to do.