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IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is.
-- Frank Rich for The New York Times
Mr. Rich's rant about Dubya's seemingly lost grip on Iraq, with this notion about completing the mission and how there is not a civil war, has inspired Monk to come up with a quip of his own: President Bush is our Pretender in Chief. Though, when presidents, kings, and dictators play pretend, it is usually a very tragic game.
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IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is.
-- Frank Rich for The New York Times
Mr. Rich's rant about Dubya's seemingly lost grip on Iraq, with this notion about completing the mission and how there is not a civil war, has inspired Monk to come up with a quip of his own: President Bush is our Pretender in Chief. Though, when presidents, kings, and dictators play pretend, it is usually a very tragic game.
