Pfft. If he understood what he was doing, I hate him more. So far I've always given him the benefit of the doubt when considering the results of his actions on 9/11, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, with the banking crisis, with Katrina, with secrecy, with making torture American policy, with No Child Left Behind, with the Patriot Act, and with turning a surplus into the worst recession in decades.

I'd hate to see what a mess a real genius would have made with all that.

All this story shows me is a man preternaturally gifted in terms of understanding the people around him, and bullshitting.