Something that caught my attention.

[mburbank]

I think your basic premise is pretty thin, and I'm being polite.

You're reading a whole world into "It's hard", which he actually said several times, and my reading (no more legitimate than yours, but I'm not making a grand reading of the man based on it) is that it was whiny and petulant.

If this was him saying "Hey, I'm doing the best I can" it was certainly an utterly out of character moment, since admitting difficulty is something he seems constitutionally unable to do.

I think a far more complete estimation of W. is to be made based on his actions. He is utterly uninterested in dissenting opinions, he doesn't read the paper and is surounded by an ever tightening circle of loyalists. I think that's dangerous.

He's also claimed on several occasions to have no qualms or doubts about Iraq and not to have lost any sleep on the night of the invasion.

I also have to say anyone who finds Limbaugh "the most interesting political commentator I have ever heard." and isn't speaking from a purely sociological point of view needs to get out more.