The End of the Bush Presidency
Bush never had the gift of persuasion, the ability to give a State of the Union address or a press conference that left his enemies disarmed, but there was a time when he at least seemed like a leader - like someone consequential, active, and important, whatever one thought of his actions and their consequences. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Bush has always been more Manichaean than Christian in his simplistic, dualistic way of viewing the world -- light vs. dark, good vs. evil, et cetera. Being a superficial man with no appreciation for the complexity of reality and thus no sense of gradation in his ethical thinking, this good-bad thinking blinded him to his own atrocities, since he always had to see himself as one of the "good guys."