Carol:

You may be giving them too much credit. Bush is a stupid sonofabitch, even though he tries hard to be clever. Very stupid people can be crafty and artful in their colossal stupidity, just as some very intelligent people can be inept at social manipulation, because their deceit index is too low. Bush's index of deceit -- the amount he can tolerate generating without suffering qualms or psychosomatic illness -- is very high; he is not only stupid, he is a hidebound stupid sonofa bitch, a snake in the grass with body armor.

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