Wholesome Bush Bashing: Good for the spirit.

From Lewis Lapham’s Notebook: “The Golden Horde” from the October, 2003 issue of Harper’s. (no online link--yet)

“The political ship of state designed to the specification of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment sailed over the horizon in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected to the White House on the strength of his heart-warming sentiment and his talent for striking an heroic pose. How different Schwarzenegger’s shameless gall from the shameless gall of President George W. Bush, who offered as his credentials for admission to the White House little else except a famous name, a record of failure and probable fraud as both a business executive and as a soldier, a friendly state of wholesome ignorance, and a desire for applause?”