And Jesse's comment "Now that I'm a civlian..."

God that gives me shudders. His delusion is that he was Commander in Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, when in reality he was the governor, a civilian role as the executive leader of a civilian institution.

I think Bush & the Bush Republicans view Bush the same way that Jesse views himself, in purely militaristic terms.

Those 1980 bumeprstickers playing off the every 20 year dead president curse that said "Shoot Bush First" are turning out to have been pretty damn prophetic.