What you're forgetting is that Bush may be the President, but he is not a leader. He is a cheerleader. He cracks jokes, gives backslaps to male leaders and chauvenistic backrubs to female leaders. Ask one of the Miami University cheerleaders how the schools horrible football season affected them and you'd get the same answer. They rah'd the cheered, the jumped up and did lots of spins and never really noticed how bad their team was doing.

Do you think Bush showed any signs of despair over the collapse of Harken Energy? Can you think of any position of leadership Bush has held that actually involved leading? Those of us from or formerly from Texas know the governor's position is strictly ceremonial. He can't even pardon anyone on death row, just give them 30 day reprieves. The "Decider in Chief" decides only how to rah rah whatever cheer someone else feeds to him. In order to feel the weight of the office on him, would require that he actually feels he is responsible for the decisions made. Miami U fired Coker, the coach. They didn't fire the cheerleader and the cheerleader lost not a wink of sleep over it.

In other news the Iraq Study Group declared that obesity is caused by factors such as lack of exercise and overeating and could lead to grave and deteriorating health. The ISG recommends embeding a little exercise in one's day while eventually taking food off the table not needed for sustenance protection.

I'm not sure which is worse, that it took them this long to state the obvious or that Bush actually needed this elder statesmen study group's report to discover what is so obvious to everyone else.

"We're the battling bastards of Baghdad,

No allies, no armor, and no exit plan.

And nobody gives a damn."

None of their statements made any sense. Either Panetta's response was mistyped or I haven't got a clue of what he meant or even what country he was talking about. O'Connor on the media? Baker deflecting to Panetta? That must have been sarcasm: "I'm sure the former chief of staff of the most hated Democrat President since Roosevelt explain how he'll convince Dubya to take his advice." Maybe Leon got Bill and Hillary to autograph the copy of the report submitted to Bush. Had the pulled a group of asylum inmates in front of the camera their responses would not have sounded any more loony.

If you ever posted regularly on a forum you would know that correcting someone's spelling is the lamest sort of discourse. But you should know that, being reality based.

Yes, I wondered how my sentence might be interpreted but people know me and understand that Clinton is only hated by the right wing nuts. However, I worked for half an hour trying to figure out how to write a sentence that would include "hated by the rightwingnuts" but it just failed on every level grammatically. So I wrote it as is and hoped intelligent well read, reality based members of the community would understand what I was saying; that passing off the question of how to get Bush to listen, to Clinton's former chief of staff was as ridiculous as passing of to Jim Mora, Sr. how Michael Vick can make Jim Mora, Jr. a better coach. Get it?

Moron.

George Bush has repeatedly stated his marching orders come from The Father, not his father. He is on a mission from God and God told him to invade Iraq. To Bush, God cares not for the troubles of the immediate, no matter how grave or deteriorating they are. It is the long plan; God's plan.

God isn't telling Bush to change course and God certainly doesn't want Bush to turn his back on God's plans, let alone break or crumble in the face of other's weaknesses, fears, or inability to hear God's grand plans.

As long as Bush believes the Iraq invasion was a holy mission, he will not change course, just continue to believe in the long run it will all turn out just the way God planned it to be. Forty years of wandering in the desert is just a blink of God's eye.

Maybe the next president we vote for should be an atheist.