Hugs, Not Tax Increases

Dr. Wankenstein (aka Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain) was on The Today Show, where he spent a little time talking about the man attached to the dick he's been using as a happy baby pacifier yummy yum. The whole thing is just jaw-clenchingly infuriating, as any reasonable person might expect, but this is the bit that really just sent me well and truly around the bloody bend (and it's right at the beginning of the clip):

Draper: The president can appear to be this sort of instinctive gut fighter, but he can also be quite reflective. He's, uh, he certainly recognizes the consequences of war. That was (taught? talked?) to him by Andy Card, his then-chief of staff, even before he went to war, that one of the consequences of being a wartime president is you spend a lot of time hugging families of the fallen. And I think he takes that responsibility seriously.

OMFG.


Can't you just picture Andy Card sitting down the Boy President to gravely impart to him the grim realities of war?



Yeesh.
The bit about how Bush has made a career of being "misunderestimated," but he has an aggressive intellect nearly did me in, too, btw. Grody to the absolute flippin' max.

[Petulant provided the video, and a transcript should be somewhere here.]