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From Andrew Sullivan:

WEAKNESS AND DOGMA: This insularity, of course, is not a sign of strength, but of weakness. So there are no deficits; or they do not matter. There has been no increase in domestic spending because the president's plans say so. There was no insurgency in Iraq, just a fgew 'dead-enders', And on and on. The reason Bush cannot name a mistake he has made is not because he is smart enough not to admit error in public. It's because he doesn't believe he has ever made a mistake. If you are God's instrument, how could you? And notice the only mistake that came to his mind: he allowed a few non-believers into his inner circle. You can be sure that won't happen again. I cannot be the only person of a conservative disposition in politics to be alarmed at this kind of blindness in a president. Most people become tempered by experience; they learn from their mistakes; they adapt and reflect and adjust. Not this president. If he is as sealed off from reality now, what will he be like if he's re-elected handily?