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The verbal image that made the rounds on blogs this week was pretty bizarre, even for Bush. And I have to admit that I took the story with a few grains of salt, until I learned it was reported by the respected veteran journalist Georgie Anne Geyer:

Friends of [the president's] from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."

Scary stuff, on a couple of levels. But on the other hand, it underscores the American Dream — that in this country, even an idiot can grow up to be president.

Of course, it helps if your daddy was president before you. And if you're too dumb to notice that you're simply the pathetic puppet of Cheney & Co.