I watched a good portion of Bush’s last press conference and couldn’t help thinking it was an audition for the part of a recovering junkie recently fallen off the wagon. It wasn’t the words so much as the body language and facial expressions that held my attention. Surreal? Hasn’t the whole sad thing been surreal?
The question is, does any of it make sense? You can disagree with presidents all through history, but in the end almost all of them served their presumed constituency. Even Reagan. Which is one reason so few of them end up with terrible legacies. It was those who could not seem to define either their constituency or how to serve that constituency who have been relegated to the sidelines with bad notices. …