Orange County Register: Needle points

[question everything]

Thursday, September 23, 2004

In The American Conservative magazine, Steve Sailer notes some reasons liberals can't understand the president:

"Bush's complex personality, which long ago dazzled Rove with its political potential: gauche in public but commanding in private; cocky with peers but intimidated by his father; cunning at politics but bored by policy. ... In the president's lone losing race, his 1978 run for Congress from West Texas, the victor stressed Bush's two Ivy League degrees. Bush resolved never to allow himself to be outdumbed again. And the Democrats haven't outsmarted him since."

On Tuesday, President Bush said the CIA was "just guessing as to what the conditions might be like" in its scenario for the future of Iraq, the three possibilities being stability, the country breaking apart and civil war. Well, if guessing is all they can do, we might as well just dump the Company and hire Ken Jennings, the guy who keeps winning and setting records on "Jeopardy."

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2004/09/23/sections/commentary/editorials/article_249906.php