The Ostrich President

Man, I knew that Bush was a guy who only wanted to hear stuff that agreed with him, and many folks have spoken about how he places himself in a little cocoon, but he is so bad about it that he is even suppressing the metrics by which we might be able to efficiently judge what is going on in Iraq. In other words, he essentially already knows that the outcomes of the metrics are going to be awful, so he will just stick with news of school openings, thank you very much.

Bush loves to compare himself favorably to past great world leaders, but perhaps no comparison works better for me in this case than that to Catherine the Great riding through villages set up by General Potemkin.