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...With reporting by Aaron J. Klein / Sderot, Jamil Hamad / Bethlehem and Mark Thompson / Washington
...Lame Duck? That's a Quack Joe Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus...
...Klein mentions the expressions on Bush's face. Among the hideous 9/11 images better erased from the memory is the one when Dubya is first told. He is sitting in a little straight chair surrounded by children at the school he is visiting. An aide comes over and whispers the foul facts in his ear. His face registers bafflement, incomprehension, terror, helplessness. Klein has it "forlorn." Yes. In an instant the most powerful man in the world sitting in a little chair has learned the world will never be the same again because there are people in it willing...
...Klein talks about Bush's "intellectual laziness," which suggests Bush had the intellect, but was too lazy to use it. Why doesn't Klein call a spade a spade? Actually, the problem is that Bush didn't have the intellect in the first place; he is a stupid man, plain and simple. And America was stupid to elect him in the first place, and then stupid beyond belief to re-elect him in 2004. Without romanticizing Obama, it seems to me that he's intelligent; America has partly redeemed itself by electing him. Unfortunately for Obama, he has to sort...
...struggle to find words to express my ever-growing disappointment and disgust with Bush's disastrous presidency, except to be convinced that he is the worst President in my 72-year-long lifetime, if not in the entire history of our country. That's why I really appreciated Klein's "The Lamest Duck." It is a truly classic piece of writing, explaining graphically how so many of us feel. David B. Lantz, Fenton, Mich...