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October 25, 2003

Out of touch

I remember when, during Bush the first's presidency, people were agog at the idea that the President was so out-of-touch with reality that he was surprised to see a supermarket scanner in action. It seems that Bush the second is even more out-of-touch than his father was. This Bush was surprised to learn how others in the world view the US and our policies.

Minutes after President Bush finished an hourlong meeting with moderate Islamic leaders on the island of Bali on Wednesday, he approached his staff with something of a puzzled look on his face.

"Do they really believe that we think all Muslims are terrorists?" he asked, shaking his head. He was equally distressed, he told them, to hear that the United States was so pro-Israel that it was uninterested in the creation of a Palestinian state living alongside Israel, despite his frequent declarations calling for exactly that.

It was a revealing moment precisely because the president was so surprised.

Perhaps the President should stop relying on aides to deliver the news they think he needs to hear and start reading the papers for himself. He might have a better idea of what's going on if he did - rather than being sheilded behind a wall of syncophants who will only tell him what he wants to hear.

Posted by thorswitch at October 25, 2003 09:35 PM

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