The cheerful idiot
we allow the Current Occupant to leave the Mansion d'Blanc with a big grin in a couple of weeks, his self-esteem apparently fully intact, imagining that his legacy will emerge golden and shining in a hundred years after all of us are deceased. He is one of the cheerfullest idiots you ever saw, a man who could burn down his own house and be happy that the patio was still standing. Had Congress impeached him, his defense would have been that he was not ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Though an impressive wordsmith, Keillor's meandering writing style that he punctuates with pat conclusions -- in this case, life is a beautiful absurdity -- is beginning to be matched by his doddering season of life. Though superficially true, his judgment of Bush as a cheerful man with his self-esteem intact is as superficial as it is deeply wrong.