Yeah, but the rats will still complain that he got the carpet wet when he came back.
Are they never satisfied?
No, they are never satisfied. But I suspect neither is Bush. Satisfied people are inactive, content to rest on their laurels. The driven man, as W is, will continue to to struggle for the next level. Such are the individuals who shape history. Satisfaction yields a happy yet ultimately limited life; insatiable ambition results in an wearisome exisitence that is epoch-making.
Not many folks have the vision or will to chose the latter course. Those who do probably wish that they had lived simple and ephermeral lives (think Napoleon's last feverish utterance--would he have chosen love over empire if he could go back? ). That's the nature of the Faustian spirit.
Yeah, but the rats will still complain that he got the carpet wet when he came back.
Next days New York Times headline:
BUSH CAN'T SWIM