At Barack Obama's inauguration, whenever the television cameras zeroed in on Bush, he looked to me like he had aged about twenty years. And when he and Laura were walking to the helicopter, he looked like a whipped dog.

I think he may well have been thinking of the striking contrast between himself and Obama, and agonizing over how history is going to judge him.

At the same time, I thought "there goes the patsy for Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove."

And even cheerleader Grover Norquist is now trying to distance himself from the Bush administration.

Don Firth