Suskind: Bush is "a unique blend of opacity and action."

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/06/22/DI2006062200894.html


Ron Suskind: This administration has been particularly innovative in its tactical forcefulness. That, like so much else, emerges from the personalities of the president and the vice president themselves. It is often said the president gets the White House he deserves. It tends to mirror his inclinations, his rhythms, his proclivities. In any White House people channel the president.

George Bush is a man who has never embraced the analytical traditions prized in America's professional class. He has instead improvised models throughout his life, especially of late to embrace action driven by instinct. He trusts his instincts for better or for worse. But no doubt, his instincts have taken him pretty far in this world. His White House reflects him.

In a way, the vice president has been active in constructing a White House, an architecture around George Bush, where the president can be driven by these lights of impulse and improvisation and still be president, a president who still, after more than five years, is a unique blend of opacity and action.

[EFerrari]

1. With a hint of oak

[BurtWorm]

2. ...and undertones of lark vomit.

:crazy:

[Terran1212]

3. Suskind said Bush bombed al jazeera purposely

Why isn't he calling him a war criminal if he believs that

[Skidmore]

4. Suskind, Tweety, Mike Allen, and guys like them seem to swoon

over that loser. What is it with them? In what way are they challenged that they need to worship this coward as some sort of superhero?

[BurtWorm]

6. I don't think Suskind is worshipful.

"Opacity" is not exactly a glowing term.

[Warpy]

5. Beware the utterly certain

because they lack the capacity to realize something isn't working, that one of their cherished notions has been wrong, or that the world isn't quite what they've been told it is. They are incapable of correcting their mistakes, changing an opinion, or casting aside fantasies in favor of reality.

Beware the Repuglicans.