I can’t help but read your body language this morning, Mr. President,” he said.

[rodeodance]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/opinion/05dowd.html?ex=1354510800&en=5d86b1295226a522&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

December 5, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Seven Days in December?
By MAUREEN DOWD

WASHINGTON

At the White House news conference yesterday, The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Silva gingerly snuck up on a state-of-mind question.

“I can’t help but read your body language this morning, Mr. President,” he said. “You seem somehow dispirited, somewhat dispirited.”

W. did look like a kid who’d just had his toys taken away. But he acted humorously exasperated, as he always does when the talk turns introspective.

“This is like, all of a sudden, it’s like Psychology 101, you know?” he said, as reporters laughed.

The reporters pressed on about whether the president was troubled about a possible “credibility gap” with the American people, given that the facts had failed him on Iraq and Iran and that Harry Reid had charged that “the president is not leveling with the American people” on war spending.

Even though Norman Podhoretz is conjuring up a “Seven Days in December” spy thriller scenario in which the intelligence agencies colluded to sabotage the president and prevent him from the noble mission of air strikes on Iran, W. insisted he felt “pretty good about life.”

[gateley]

1. He feels pretty good about life? WE'RE miserable and hurting, thanks to him! nt

[Ilsa]

2. What more could we expect from a pres and first lady who

talked about how they were laughing that night on 9-11-01 when the rest of the US couldn't smile for weeks.

[Ilsa]

4. Oh yeah, I hope Biden goes back to DC to start an investigation

on the NIE stuff. I think it could even give him more visibility.

[maddiejoan]

5. He feels "pretty good" about life.

But death gives him a raging stiffy.

[Olney Blue]

3. He sleeps like a baby at night. No introspection, no regret.

He'll go to his grave believing he was God's gift to freedom.

[trusty elf]

6. No introspection? I beg to differ!

What about this? ! ?