Reality resolves the dialectic between optimism and pessimism, a mental state that Bush has not experienced regarding his war in Iraq and other issues important to "We the People." Arrogance intrudes on the possibility of living in the real world for him. The following article demonstrates that fact. And, he's actually optimistic about his legacy. Sounds selfish, compassionless, arrogant in light of the damage he's done/doing.
*Photo caption: August 2005--Satellite
imagery shows hurricane Katrina
bringing an important message to
many Americans.
Bush, on Friendly Turf, Suggests History Will Be Kind to Him
by JIM RUTENBERG
April 20, 2007
TIPP CITY, Ohio, April 19 — With his attorney general under fire in Washington and his fight with Congressional Democrats over paying for the war at a stalemate, President Bush came here Wednesday before a friendly audience to give his thinking on Iraq, Congress and the massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Speaking at a 90-minute, town-hall-style meeting in a high school gymnasium, Mr. Bush said he would not buckle to polls showing opinion cutting against him on a variety of issues, and conveyed his belief that he would be vindicated by history ...
“I’ve been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.”
And he concluded with a thought about what historians would say about him. Last year, he said, he read three biographies of George Washington. “If they’re still writing about 1,” he said, “43 doesn’t have to worry about it.”
Note: Bush rarely attends "unfriendly" audiences lest he be challenged; this bolsters his optimism and arrogance further.
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