In His World!

Wow! He wins by 3 percentage points, the lowest margin for an incumbent President in history, and he deludes himself into thinking that he has carte blanche to do whatever the heck he wants over the next 4 years.

"President George W. Bush has said that his re-election in November ratified the correctness of his approach in Iraq and provided an 'accountability moment' for those behind flawed judgments regarding the war there.

Bush made the comments in an interview published Sunday, in which he also twice declined to endorse a suggestion by Secretary of State Colin Powell that the U.S. troop presence in Iraq could be reduced by year's end.

The president thus indicated that he intended to move determinedly forward with plans to stabilize and democratize Iraq, without undue second-guessing about what he suggested were mistakes of the sort inevitable in wartime, and with few doubts that, failures and missteps aside, the war had proved worthwhile.

But his suggestion that the election had been a public ratification of Iraq policy seemed unlikely to find much support outside his Republican Party. It was scathingly rejected by one leading Democrat, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who called it 'ridiculous.' "

This is how you know what a piss poor and mediocre performer he has been his entire life. If you are used to D's and F's, a miraculous "C" is like an A and the whole world cheers -- much in the way people do for kids in the Special Olympics. George and Barbara must have been some kind of parents to have groomed someone who's bar for excellence resembles "how low can you go?" in a limbo contest.