I rather thought, Strick, that that was the point he was making. Looking at Bush and America from outside we can fail to recognise that a lot of what we find strange and alien isn't just Bush and teh Reoublicans, it's generic American.

And the point the writer is making, surely, is that domestic opponents of Bush need to recognise the truth of that. If you want to destroy the corruption of what America could be which is represented by Bush and Co, you have to do it in an American way. Mark Twain - Woodie Guthrie - Pete Seeger - Garrison Keiller - Michael Moore. And there's more where that came from in all colours, female as well as male, and all colours.