re: #242 HappyWarrior

That is a key difference. Hell I think what bugged me was he was too aware of it sometimes. I remember one time he told the C students of the world they too could be President and it annoyed me given his pedigree. I don’t remember W ever being outright malicious to his opponents but he just had a cluelnessness that often annoyed me. Iraq on the heels of Afghanistan is another example. And he definitely had no problem smearing the critics of the Iraq War which of course bothered me too.

Rove was really successful in branding W as an aw-shucks good ole boy. The original candidate you’d like to have a beer with.