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anything that could sensibly be said about the Nth speech by the Current Occupant of the fading Presidency was already said by Wonkette. can't add anything else.

i can't believe the Glenn Beck crowd was actually sentimental about all this.

hey, look at the bright side: maybe something will be found among all the lost White House emails ordered to be recovered which will let people finally see what a friggin' joke this administration has been.

NAWWWWWWWWWWW! who am i kiddin'? the Glenn Beck crowd will accuse the National Archives of lying for political motives and just believe their fantasy GWB anyway.

update 20090116: in "The Frat Boy Ships Out", The Economist does a retrospective on the years of George W Bush's Presidency. between "Cheney the String-Puller" and the observation that

Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, 'rarely read books and distrusted people who did'

it's pretty comprehensive, damning, and, uh, sad.

what's sadder, however, is that it was the people of the United States who voted this pitiful organization in and kept them there. Bush may be gone. i'm less confidence the mistakes of judgment in the public are. after all, it's a compelling argument that the primary reason the clearly superior Barack Obama and his cadre were elected was because of the economic catastrophe. otherwise, the public might well have elected another representative of that uninvolved, irrelevant, and incompetant political party and his Books-Aren't-Relevant sidekick.

update 20090118 2150 EST: as a cartoonist quipped about this never-ending series of self-assessments featuring Bush-the-actually-cuddly-raggedy-anne-doll-don't-you-doubt-it,

He has no exit strategy.