[Vigilantcitizen]

I thought it a fair piece.

Mr. Perlstein; regarding the President's calm demeanor, he's a devout poker player too.

[MHGinTN]

Uh, I wouldn't say half the country hates Bush--though the pollsters who increase their capital by purveying such a machination would have you believe that. More likely is, the pollsters know to whom they can go for polling results in order to fashion such a notion with specious statistics.

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I thought it was a fair piece as well. Wrong factually on certain points (“his cover story of several years' standing as to why he couldn’t have known Bin Laden was determined to strike in the U.S”), but not a hit piece by any means.

Plus, it also the kind of article that will actually scare the living crap out of the typical Village Voice reader, which is always funny to contemplate.

I am not religious in the least, but I still find the idea that Bush feels he is answering to a higher power comforting. It insures that Bush will do what he believes to be right thing for the greatest good, which is a pretty solid guideline for any individual who isn’t a sociopath.

It sure beats the hell out somebody like Clinton, who answered only to money, his libido and his lust for more power.

[JasonC]

Geez, why in heck isn't the rube running in terror from our leading editorials? Doesn't he know we are God? Doesn't he know that by incurring our disapproval, he stands condemned before the only competent eternal tribunal of all that is right and true? Who the heck is this guy anyway? How dare he defy us!

Well, it is understandable. He is, after all, deranged and certifiable, a religious nutcase, who thinks the favorable opinions of a dozen ignorant housewives in Duluth is more important than the editorial boards of the New York Times, Village Voice, and Tikkun combined. How absurd. We must get fanatics like him out of the White House.

Fortunately, his blithe stupidity, while a tower of strength in terms of his ability to ignore us, also keeps him from seeing anything about the real world. That is why our policies of appeasement and pacifism have worked as often as they have been tried, while peace through strength and energetic use of the military has never accomplished anything to speak of.

Yes, he is the one out of touch with reality and the way the world really works. And with the hearts and minds of the American electorate, all of whom (except the aforementioned dozen housewives) are just like fellow readers of the Village Voice.