Mission Accomplished

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
George W. Bush

I watched Bush's final press conference last night. Pretty sad. I think if I were to sum up this guy it would be as follows:

He's a kid. A somewhat slow, affable, not badly intentioned, but irresponsible rich kid who got in over his head. A dilettante. (Rather like me except that I am somewhat smarter than him and he is infinitely richer than me.)  Everything he has done has had that "son of a rich guy" feel to it. Everything has been like a toy for him to play with and if he broke it, no big deal. His failed oil company, The Texas Rangers, the Texas Governor's office, then the Presidency.

If you think about his first campaign and his first few months in office he did not seem like a bad guy. In fact he spent more time on vacation than working, which is not a bad thing in my view, and he was pretty laissez-faire (or ignorant) about what went on in other countries. Then came 911 and I think it was like "Oh, wow. Now I can play with the big boys" time. It was as if the thought of taking the job seriously had never actually crossed his mind before. He actually thought he could be a serious president because the opportunity for war was handed to him. Of course he was out of his depth and had to rely on what the neocon cabal fed him. And since then I suspect he has been aware that virtually every move he has made has been the wrong one but is just not bright enough to know exactly why or what to do about any of it. I don't think he is a fundamentally evil man, just a fundamentally frivolous and not too bright boy.

As for Obamarama, there are a million things that could be examined about "The One" but I'd sum up my view, or suspicions actually, about him simply. If it had been on his watch would he have signed the Patriot Act and the accompanying Draconian bills into law or would he have said "I am not going to sign laws that violate the Constitution"? I think there is zero doubt about the answer. And the difference here is: Bush is a dimwit and just doesn't get it. Obama is brilliant - and therefore evil. In other words, Obama will prove to be  just another US President except that he is semi-black.

C'est tout. End of mini-rant.