Sometimes being wrong, Doug, is really not the issue. What the incident should bring to your mind is the inescapable knowledge that you misunderstood your president, that you were wrong in what you believed of him. You were not trying to figure out the logical action to take: You were telling us what you thought the President would do. See the difference?

What was it he said? "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."   (I hope you understand that better than I do. *G*)