MAG...I've watched Bush soundless and he looks like a shifty-eyed weasel. And that's BEFORE I heard what he was saying. I'm so far out of the mainstream I have no idea what sways most people, but to my eye, as well as my ear, Bush isn't it. I think he's got the nod because the U.S., so insular in it's size and might, was able to deny the growing threat of terrorism...until 9/11 tore away our defensive blindness.

The reaction is to want to strike out, retaliate, obliterate the threat so we can all go back to feeling comfortable again. And that's what concerns me the most about this country, this mindless search for the easy (and self-righteous) answer...which is what Bush is giving us.