Dawkins writes:

Whenever I'm weary of reading all that bad news in the newspapers about how President Bush lied about this, or mislead about that, or failed to accomplish the other, I turn to New York Times writer Elisabeth [Ed. note: "Bulimia"] Bumiller's "White House Letter" to remind me that he's just a real guy… and a "reliable" and "vigilant" one too. In fact, he's practically the "mirror opposite of Bill Clinton"!

Remember him? He was our last president, who was really different from our current president. It's always been edifying (and evidently still is), to draw contrasts between Bill Clinton and President Bush.

For example, when you look back at Bill Clinton, you see a guy who "routinely ran late and let meetings turn into seminars."

But "in Mr. Bush's world, if he is not on time, he is a half-hour early; his aides say he does everything fast, including eating meals. To his supporters, Bush Time reflects the president's discipline and focus."

So, it's like:

Clinton = meetings running late and turning into seminars = moral equivocation + indulgent intellectualizing + rampant sexual profligacy

Vs.

Bush = short meetings, little discussion = moral clarity + strong leadership + discipline and focus + values, commitment, decency

Bumiller quotes "a Republican supporter who meets with Mr. Bush but did not want to be named because White House aides get angry when people talk about their closeness to the president":

(God forbid a New York Times reporter would ever cause Bush's aides to become "angry"…)

"He also knows how to keep others on the topic. When they veer off, he'll move them quickly back to the subject. There's not a lot of intellectual wandering going on, because he's busy."

Get it? The President is busy. One hour with that silly, intellectually wandering 9/11 panel is plenty, and barely as much as our busy President can spare.

(Speaking of intellectual wandering? Doesn't that sound like something that blow-job lover Clinton would be into?)

Out of any given 24 hours in Washington, Mr. Bush will generally spend 11 hours working, 7 hours sleeping and 6 other hours in the White House residence.

11 hours working? The President of the United States? Shoot, most of us regular Americans work 7 or 8 hour days. This guy is busting his tail for us!

He often eats a lunch of salad alone while he channel-surfs in a small dining room off the Oval Office.

Yep.

Mr. Bush, it should be noted, spent one hour at the Houston rodeo last week. There he patted some cows on the head and said, briefly, "I thought there was a lot of bull in Washington, D.C."

Shucks! How can we stay mad at this guy!

(Incidentally, the headline in the print version of the paper today was "Want a Reliable President? Here's One You Can Set Your Clocks By." I wonder why it was changed on the web to "It's 10 O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your President Is? In Bed." Both are pretty inane.)