"The U.S. still behaves, when all is said and done, like a scared monkey, clinging desperately to a shiny spoon despite the trap closing in all around us, refusing to let go of this old, silly, faux-cowboy mentality of boom boom kill kill God is your daddy now sit down and shut up. Bush embodies this. He is the very emblem of this childish, polarizing, sclerotic worldview. He literally cannot speak with any complexity, depth, resonance. He cannot function in a world of deep intellect, nuance, mature perspective. He is incapable of asking for help. He is unable to admit mistakes or discuss shortcomings or expand his mind-set to include the new and the possible." - - - Mark Morford