Mayhap I'm a bit naive. Or dense. Choose your adjective wisely, Grasshopper. But I think that we never needed the infamous kerning memos, or the help of Dan Rather. What we needed was Terri Schiavo to prove the lack of character and the absolute consistency of Beloved Leader. Think about it...

In the late 60's to much fanfare and clanging of bells, Preznit Bunnypants is inducted into the TxANG as first an enlisted man (no hoopla there) and then amidst a deafening roar, he's made an Officer with no special qualification other than family connections. When the limelight disappears, so does Bunnypants, to something that was suspiciously like a vacation. In Alabama. Old news.

In 2001 we are struck here at home, and in the visceral reaction to the attack, amidst much fanfare and clanging of bells, Fearless Leader proclaims that he wants Osama "Dead or Alive". Then as the limelight disappears, he goes back on Vacation and soon denies he ever made any public pronouncments about Osama. Unfortunately for him, there was video.

In 2003 he stood on the deck of an capital ship of the line, an aircraft carrier, amidst much fanfare and clanging of bells (literally) and pronounced the "Mission Accomplished". Two years later with over 1,500 Americans and countless Iraqi's dead and mutilated and an insurgency that is growing incrementally stronger, he denied he was responsible for starting a war based on lies and deceit or that his operatives were even responsible for the photo-op sign. And then he went on vacation.

In 2005 he's asked to come back to Washington to intercede in a private famliy matter, amidst much fanfare and clanging of bells. He does this to mollify his "base" who handed him the election and now want payback. But as with all his other efforts when the going got tough, he simply got going. Back to vacation and his cocoon.

I heard once that the present is the key to the past. I guess it's really true. Memos? We never needed no stinking memos...all the evidence has been there all along, it just took the events in Florida to make it even more clear.

It doesn't really take any memos to see that the inherent character that made him disappear after the Schiavo debacle hasn't changed much since he was appointed as an Officer in whom "special trust and confidence" were misplaced.