She is a much more thoughtful, higher quality individual than he is.

That isn't saying much.

” If it were, what we would most want to hear from Laura Bush is not about the White House years, but how she married a middle-aged drunk and straightened him out, a creditable feat for a spouse but a disaster for the country.”

I never thought about it before- but you are right , that would make fascinating reading. I seem to remember that he straightened out after she threatened to leave him. She is a much more thoughtful, higher quality individual than he is.

I really liked the following observation from your blog:

“Somewhere in the future, the outgoing President will no doubt pocket umpteen millions from his publicist Rupert Murdoch for a work of fiction about the Bush years.”

It will truly be a work of pulp fiction.