Mikaela says:
Two little Bush treats today.
One from Dan Froomkin, who links to transcripts of Bush's off-line discussion with G8 leaders inadvertently captured on his microphone.
Bush's anything but nuanced analysis of the Lebanon-Israel crisis:
See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over.And when talking to Chinese President, here's the sum of his wisdom:
Russia's a big country and you're a big country.
On that note, the other tidbit comes from LA Times columnist Jonathan Chait looking again at Bush-detractors' assertions from the very beginning that Bush was "too dumb to be President." Instead of just being about a cultural difference between book learners and common sense wisdom, Chait points out that Bush's decisions from the gut based on his assessment of the personalities of those he's talking to has led to disaster after disaster, from Katrina to Iraq. Chait relies heavily for his analysis on Ron Suskind's book "The One Percent Doctrine," which was also featured on Democracy Now last Friday.
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