Lame

Now that W. is a lame duck, and not because he was accidentally shot by Cheney, those little nostalgic presidential anecdotes are beginning to surface. He has just said on television, for example, he was sorry he got the intelligence wrong about Iraq when he ordered our preemptive invasion of a country that had not attacked us. You betcha. Ben Bernanke tells the story about the tan socks he wore to an important meeting with the president and how W. became obsessed with this preppy fashion gaff and kept bringing it up, which in turn was followed by a juvenile reenactment by everyone at the next White House meeting just to amuse the president. Makes you wonder what important national business in that meeting was really more important to him. And now, he boasts that one of his greatest achievements in office has been fighting AIDS. What? Meanwhile, the Labor Department reports the most alarming unemployment figures in more than a century, with more than half a million jobs lost in just one month. Oh, well, W. just bought a three-million-dollar house in Dallas. And when he says we only have one president at a time (lame as he is), Barney Frank (D-Mass.) thinks the president may have overstated that figure. Finally, last week, he said he wasn’t really worried too much about his legacy because he’ll be dead by the time it’s written into history anyway. What, me worry?