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You may end up being right pan...I'm not a big fan of professional politicians much myself. I think the power and $$$ tend to corrupt, but that's not really a novel insight. When Bush took office, I didn't really dig the guy - based mostly on what I saw as nepotistic roots and a silver spoon in his mouth...but if he had been interviewed about how he was going to deal with post-9/11 Afganistan, and he had the same sort of laugh that Obama did and said "well, it's a pretty tough problem...I don't know where to start..." I don't think I would rake him over the coals for that. What I did think was pretty shitty was the joke he made about not being able to find Weapons of Mass Destruction (TM) in that press-corp dinner (or whatever the setting was...it may have been a GOP event or fund raiser, I can't remember) when we were about 2 or 3 years into the Iraq mess. The things that pissed me off most about Bush weren't any particular interview or statement or policy, it was the gestalt mixture of all of his interviews, statements, and policies. When/if Obama does something similar, I'll have the same reaction to it. I just don't think this was it.
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