Peggy Noonan disappointed me a bit last night, Gergen is always a blathering idiot ... but Barnacle saw Bush as some of us here do, and he understood the commitment, strength and resolve of the man. Noonan and Gergen and Matthews are playing patty-cake with the "what-ifs" regarding U.N. action, they're jibba-jabbing about whether Bush's cowboy tendencies have been muted by smarter people (i.e. Powell), and Barnacle's saying "nah, we're going - world blessing or not." Barnacle was inspired, as we all should have been revisiting that day and what has transpired since.
Matthews is such a dorky political mechanic he doesn't understand the intrinsic force of right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, and win vs. lose that guides the great leaders throughout history. I really have only followed Presidents from late term Nixon forward ... and Reagan and Bush 43 are different from the rest. On issues of import, they see the world in black and white, and they have the courage to act. Thank God.