Have I lost the real me, behind my charades?
Paul Krugman column on what the Bush AWOL question may reveal about his character, and the way the White House is trying to jump into the arms of “presidential” in hopes it’ll shield them from all that tar.
I caught part of Dennis Miller’s new show last night–like a truck fire, you just can’t look away–and heard some sub-Ann Coulter trying on the “beneath the dignity of the White House” argument. That’s the the one that says that an incumbent “president” doesn’t have to lower himself to the down-and-dirty business of campigning. It’s also one of the reasons Bushs’ daddy lost.
