Sunday, July 15, 2007

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER

Jennifer Senior in The New York Times Book Review, discussing Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta's Hillary Clinton book:

Gerth and Van Natta do point out in their introduction that Hillary's stubborn refusals to admit she might have made a mistake repeatedly get her into trouble. Her world seems a lot like Bushworld in this way, they shrewdly note....

Is that really Hillary's problem -- that she stubbornly refuses to admit she might have made a mistake? Maybe. I don't know.

But that's not Bush's problem. Bush's problem is that he never recognizes that he's made a mistake.

This is true even though he's made the worst mistake in the history of the presidency -- the war with Iraq, a horrible idea executed horribly -- and quite a few runners-up.

Hillary, I'm sure, knows when something she's done hasn't worked; Bush just waits for history to prove that everyone on the planet is wrong and he's right. The two of them aren't the same at all in that regard.

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