Laura
Watching Laura Bush's news conf on Burma. This is astonishing.
She is in Tony Blair's league. Knows the big picture and all the details, communicates in clear and persuasive English, answers each question without any wasted time, weird nicknames or sports palaver.
When you have a Tony Blair and an Aphasic Imbecile available in the same office, why wait seven years to let the Tony Blair take over the podium from the unfortunate mentally defective stroke victim?
It is a mystery.
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Or maybe it's the solution to a mystery. I've always been irritated by the smug insiders constantly referring to a "Schrödinger's Bush", an articulate English-speaking sharp intelligent Bush who only appears in private situations when nobody is recording. Whenever a recorder is present, the Bush we see is the usual imbecile. I always thought the smug insiders were simply lying to protect the imbecile, but now I can see a more elegant answer. Not quantum theory, not a lie. When they talk about the two Bushes, they're not talking about two different manifestations of George, they're talking about Mr and Mrs Bush.