Speaking of Mark Evanier…
…as I was not a moment ago, he’s got some good thoughts here on the “president’s” appearance on Meet the Press. I agree with a lot of what Mark says here, but when he says Bush “ seemed to be clinging to the notion that if you act with a pure heart, you can’t possibly be accused of being a poor president (I think that was Jimmy Carter’s attitude, too.),” I think he’s missing a bet. Carter isn’t the “model” we should be looking at, Reagan is. Remember Reagan? The guy who weasled out of the Iran/Contra thing by saying his heart and best intentions told him he had not done what the evidence showed he had? And got away with it? If I’m in the white house right now, I’m praying for that kind of spin to be accepted by the American people. Trouble is, Iran/Conta didn’t involve hundreds of dead US soldiers whose families were told they were “protecting America.”
