Bush's High Point

So being too tired to blog yesterday, I missed out on the story about Bush saying the high point of his presidency was catching a moderately large fish¹ (hat tip: 13,478 different blogs that, unlike mine, weren't hopelessly behind the curve). Which is a great story, a perfect metaphor for all things Bush, but there's nothing much to say about it that hasn't already been said.

But I find it curious that more people haven't commented on what Bush considered the low point of his presidency: the 9/11 attacks.

Low point? Huh?

9/11 is the day Bush hit the trifecta. 9/11 is the day that rescued his presidency (for a while, anyway). 9/11 was the gift that kept on giving, long enough to get him elected legitimately (probably). 3,000 or so people were brutally murdered that day, and George W. Bush came out the big winner.

And I realized when I read the article that he doesn't understand this. He thinks he was popular (for a while) for his own manly decisive leadership-related program activities, and not because he was the luckiest bastard in the history of the presidency. He's either never seen or never understood the sawtooth poll charts with the big rebound for 9/11 and the little rebounds for invading Iraq and capturing Hussein and a steady downward trend the rest of the time. He probably thinks he should still be popular, and blames his problems on the lying liberal media.

Ann Richards used to say of George H. W. Bush that he was 'born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple.' His petulant, clueless baby boy is the living embodiment of the wrongheaded entitlement she was describing. And yeah, we all knew that; this was just another reminder.


¹The only time I ever went fishing as an adult, I caught a 25 pound salmon. I'm not bragging or anything; just providing a little perspective. 7.5 pounds isn't that big a fish.

[That's all, folks]