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With all of the hoopla surrounding the presidential race, our dictator remains forgotten but not gone.
Some fools though want to pretend a Democrat is going to take the White House:
Anxious denizens of Bushworld worry that McCain will beat himself and in the process take down their best chance for deliverance when it comes to the verdict of history. One former Bush aide who spends his days publicly bashing Barack Obama sat down for lunch with me recently and before the appetizers even arrived lamented that the Democrat will probably crush McCain. He ruefully called Obama one of the three most talented political figures of his lifetime, along with John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Bush’s political guru, Karl Rove, in conversations with friends this summer, could hardly restrain his exasperation at what he saw as the McCain team’s dysfunctional organization and sclerotic message. And the president himself, according to friends and prominent Republicans, privately rails about what he considers McCain’s undisciplined approach to the campaign and grouses about McCain’s efforts to distance himself from the administration. A new McCain ad this month declared, “We’re worse off than we were four years ago.” That’s the sort of stinging indictment a candidate usually issues when the other party is in the White House.
I for one don't believe it.
There's plenty of speculation in the piece about the relationship between Bush and McCain.
And what of our dictator's legacy?
Beyond the library, Bush plans to write a book and is settling on a ghostwriter. During a private gathering for House Republican leaders in the White House residence this summer, he mused about using the book to set the record straight as he sees it. “He has a number of pivotal points in his presidency that he’s willing to sit down and reflect on,” Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the House minority whip, told me afterward. “He believes that history is on his side. And if it’s not, he’s never going to know.”
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