Oliver Burkeman
January 11, 2009
... During Bush's first campaign in 2000, the consensus among many liberals was that he was an idiot ... His gaffes, supporters explained, were part of that appeal: he was a regular American ... Nobody tries to use Bush's gaffes to defend him these days, of course ...
... Bush could be strikingly petty about the slip-ups of others .... when John Kerry mocked the notion that Bush had invaded Iraq with a grand coalition of global support. "When we went in," Kerry said, "there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States" .... "He forgot Poland!" the incumbent crows, as if that made all the difference ...
... supporters sought to portray Bush's many weeks at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas as a virtue: it was where Bush reconnected with real America. And what better way to experience ordinary America than on a $1.3 million, 640-hectare ranch with four houses and a helicopter hangar? In 2005, with the Iraq war at its height, Bush headed to Crawford for five weeks — the longest presidential retreat for 36 years ...
... by 2006 he was .. focused on building "an Iran that is capable of resisting Iranian influence"
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