The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Sympathy for the POTUS

    By DF on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 11:32pm | Politics

    I don't think that I've ever seen Dubya look so down-trodden.  The swagger after 9/11, the bumbling nonchalance of Katrina.. no, I've never seen him quite like this.  He finally had to come out and admit a dismal failure and go on to talk about it for several minutes.  Though he didn't quit cop to it in so many words and kept it spunky with his signature nebulous "we're makin' progress", "market is thawin'" platitudes, he finally had to walk out and admit, mostly unequivocally, that something had been badly broken on his watch.

    I felt as if I could somehow feel a bit of his personal pain in watching this, as if I could sense his awareness of how all of this will affect his legacy.  If only things had held together just a bit longer, but, alas, the center could not hold.

    Oh, there were shades of his personal anguish when he made his post-election remarks, but here I think we see a deeper, more palpable melancholy.

    Poor guy.  You almost feel sorry for him.

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    DF, you've got a genius for discovering truth in unexpected places.


    by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 12:45am