11 July 2007

Facing Reality

The President on the war:
I can't get out. And I can't finish it with what I have got. And I don't know what the hell to do.
Unfortunately, not this president; not on this war. No...that was President Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam War, as quoted by his wife Lady Bird, who passed away on Wednesday.

President Johnson was realistic and patriotic enough to stand down for re-election in 1968. President Bush is unable to run next year, but something tells me he would if the Constitution allowed it.

That he refuses to see his mistakes and fix them will rate Mr. Bush much lower in presidential history than this 1960's Democratic predecessor. And will leave America in one hell of a mess when he steps down on January 20, 2009.