While running from Detroit west to Iowa to attend to essential tasks and then down to St. Louis and then back to Detroit, I spent time listening to the radio (I listen to NPR more than anything else while on the radio, for your information; I also listen once in a while to the Limbaugh show, bouncing between it and Thom Hartmann during lunch hour if on the road then, and if later, I listen to other Air America programming, rarely instead to Hannity, whom I find too loud and uninteresting). Bush was the subject of discussion involving the Democrat, Lanny Davis, who has defended Bush as a decent individual, and described the time Bush invited Davis and Davis's son to visit him in the Oval Office.

I feel sad about Bush and use the term “pathetic” in a dispassionate sense to describe the overall impression he has left us. Take a moment and consider just what there will be, and what we can be proud of or merely interested in, in Bush's future presidential library.