Words pretty much fail.
I said "pretty much" cuz.... well it seems like success in politics is based largely on knowing how you sound and come across to others. Bush, whatever else you want to say about him, was pretty decent at appearances, showmanship, stagecraft and the like. I mean he got elected President (twice ... kinda)! Of course Bush had an enormous share of gaffes mostly centered around his inability to command the English language (to be fair, who doesn't have to think a little bit before they use that 'fool me once' cliche?). But this one is of a different order altogether; it's not a technical mis-speak but a peek into a sick and demented mindset. Which maybe many of us were already onto, but to show it so nakedly?!
For someone so overtly concerned about his legacy, he has to know he's a pretty controversial and divisive figure, and as a thinking creature he has to know he presided over a pretty disastrous and needless (certainly in hindsight) war where, conservatively, a few hundred thousand people died or were maimed - not to mention the Katrina debacle which stands in immediate conceptual proximity to the issue at hand.
We're all pretty self-centered at times, and we all have regrets that nag at you, but if my regrets involved a gigantic pile of dead bodies, I'd like to think I'd develop some thicker skin, or at least shut my stupid fucking mouth when it came to insults from people I had never heard of.
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