A couple of quotes

[ericcoleman]

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

who also said:

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I used to buy into the theory that Bush was nothing but a puppet being manipulated by Cheney and Rove, but I don't think it's completely true. While I don't think Bush is fully aware of the depths of his advisors' schemes, I think he really does know the rough outlines of most of what his administration is doing, and he wants it that way.