[Miss Marple]

Excellent column. Tony Snow also had a column reminding us that the President was a very good poker player, which sort of made the same point as yours.

I really hope there is an excellent historian who will write about these years. I want to know what was said in those Oval Office meetings, because I am pretty sure that a lot of this "weakness" was a deception.

[Congressman Billybob]

Good to hear from you. You're a sharp cookie, my friend.

Happy New Year.

John / Billybob

[freema]

I agree and wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out my mother has been coaching him....
LOL!

[Mamzelle]

There has never been a man who could turn the awkward phrase to more enormous advantage than Bush has been able to...I still come across snobs who are so taken with their own sublime articulations that they cannot see how ultimately sterile these articulations are.

The golden-tongued keep on losing, but they are so intellectual. And so perplexed--aren't they smarter than Bush, who expresses himself so poorly in words? Aren't words everything? And if the intelligentsia are masters of words, why are they not masters of the world?

Vanity, vanity. Of any man in office I've ever seen, Bush is the most lacking in that most common of human frailties. He doesn't at all mind playing the buffoon, if the buffoon always wins.

[OKSooner]

Makes one think he's the product of his upbringing.