Bush's threats to nuke Iran has a lot of people suddenly paying attention. [View All]

[Cyrano]

I have relatives, friends and acquaintances who never want to discuss politics. Some of them can't even name one of their senators. But over the past few weeks, something really strange seems to have happened. They're the ones starting conversations about Iran and nukes, and it's not Iran that has them worried. It's Bush.

A good example is my sister, who spends a lot of time playing bridge and thinks that politics is just some kind of card game that she never learned. She actually said to me yesterday, "Do you think Bush is crazy?" Something like this coming from my sister is the equivalent of a two year old asking about rocket science. (She's not stupid. She just never had any interest in politics.) But she lives in a blue state, so I guess she's not the best example.

However, friends and acquaintances who couldn't care less about politics have also asked me similar questions. Just because I pay attention to politics, they're under the mistaken impression I know what Bush is really up to. Hell, I doubt if Poppy Bush even knows what junior is up to.

Have any of you had similar experiences? Has anything changed other than Bush scaring the crap out of a lot of people?