Good night and good luck

Thoughts on George W. Bush's farewell address.

The poor son of a gun. He dodges the draft, fails at every venture and is bailed out each time by his father's buddies, "loses" an election but is sworn in anyway (I know, the electoral college is the law and the Supreme Court put an end to the chad counting, etc. I'm over it), sends thousands to their death in a needless war when the U.S. had Saddam in a box.

He's right, though, that things would have been worse without the efforts of government to ameliorate the economic pain, as unfair as it may be to rescue finance and car makers and ignore other industries. That was a tough decision.

But I just wish he would have shown more reliance on thinking about what was clearly before him and not the Cheneys, et al., who machinated behind the scenes.

I hesitate to say this, but he just wasn't too bright. Obama may not be either but best of luck to him.

"How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse...

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."