He gives himself way to much credit - like he was the sole decision maker? Sure, buddy.
I take this piece as a reflection of how liberals think. He lives with great guilt about the Bush presidency and dwells in the past. Conservatives work to preserve the future of our republic!
“........Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.”
http://us.macmillan.com/innumeracy/johnallenpaulos