All Ben Feller Is Missing Is A Skirt And Pom Poms

I would expect a reality challenged puff piece on President Bush's legacy from say the Wall Street Journal or the Washinton Times but what wingnut owns the AP these days? Been Feller devotes a whole story to felating Bush in a way that makes me want to ask if he left a tip on the night stand afterward. Think I am being too harsh? Well lets examine his story entitled "Analysis: Bush's personality shapes his legacy"

Bush demands punctuality and disdains inefficiency. Every meeting better have a clear purpose. And it better not repeat what he already knows.

He is up early and in the Oval Office by 6:45 a.m. By 9:30 to 10 at night, it's lights out. He likes to be fresh and won't get cheated on his sleep.

Then I wonder why it took him so long to get his punctual ass to New Orleans after Katrina. Maybe if he was a little more punctual in reading his own PDBs we wouldn't have had 9-11. Oops I forgot we aren't supposed to bring that kinda stuff up. Especially in a story that lauds all things Bush.

When Bush wants answers, guessing isn't advised.

"He can sniff it out a mile away if you don't have the goods," said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan.

Yeah his sniffer worked GREAT when it came to WMD intelligence huh?

You can tell the issues that really get Bush going, because he talks about them differently, more passionately: education, AIDS relief, freedom. They happen to be ones that can be viewed more clearly through a moral lens. That's how he sees the world.

I wonder if he sees the Devil when he looks in a mirror through his "moral lens".

The man from a land of cowboy boots orders proper dress in the White House. No jeans allowed in the West Wing. Coat and tie in the Oval Office.

Wouldn't clown shoes be more appropriate for his minions?

Bush's words betray him sometimes.

"They misunderestimated the compassion of our country," Bush said of the Sept. 11 terrorists. "I talk to families who die," he said, meaning the loved ones of those who perish in war. "Childrens do learn when standards are high," he said in promoting his education plan.

Ivy League educated, Bush is good-natured about his verbal trip-ups. Yet he appears to have grown a bit more methodical in public, as if searching carefully for the right words.

His tangled moments have undoubtedly helped shape an unflattering public perception; there are entire books of his "Bushisms." Invariably, though, people who talk to him privately — historians, journalists, dissidents — come away with a very different impression of a meticulous thinker.

It is a paradox of his presidency.

No Ben, its an ANALOGY of his presidency!

Bush can flash a temper and impatience. But if he takes criticism personally — and he gets lots of criticism — he tries not to show it.

When former press secretary Scott McClellan wrote a scathing book about Bush's leadership, the president told his senior aides to let it go.

"Find a way to forgive, because that's the way to lead your life," White House press secretary Dana Perino remembers Bush advising her.

Riiiiiight. Thats why every Bush lackey including Perino took to the airwaves to discredit McClellan? If thats forgiveness I would hate to see what holding a grudge looks like.

He shows consideration to people close to him in little ways. He sends birthday notes to staff members. He remembers little details about their families. When he visits an Army post to thank the troops, he's been known to wander into the kitchen, too, to praise whoever cooked him the french fries.

The president is a proud dad of two grown daughters, Jenna and Barbara. The public got a tiny glimpse of his softer side when Jenna married Henry Hager in May. Bush said afterward that his little girl married a really good guy. First lady Laura Bush says her husband now has a son.

So he thanks the hired help for french fries and says a good word about his new son in law at the wedding no less and we are supposed to be impressed? Thats his "softer" side? Seriously, could you reach any farther for something good to say about President Bush? Wait, where is the revelation that he actually feeds his dog?

His time will soon be his own.

"I will leave the presidency with my head held high," Bush says.

And he will leave behind a lot to remember.

Yeah like his failure to react to an impending terrorist strike, his failure to act in the face of one of our nations most destructive natural disasters, his facilitation of the current economic crisis that he refused to acknowledge until it was too late, his leading the nation into a war of choice which has cost more than 4,000 of our sons and daughters their lives and a his total disregard for the Constitution. That's what he will be remembered for and if there is any justice in this world, he won't leave the presidency with his head held high. He will be frog marched in front of a world court and held to account for his crimes.

If you want to know why the AP has become almost totally irrelevant you need look no further than this article. When the Ben Fellers of the write articles that would seem to be ghost written by Karl Rove they effectively throw their credibility out of the window. If the AP hopes to survive as more and more media outlets drop their service they had for damn sure better clean house and start all over with some real journalists. Firing Ben Fluffer Feller would be a pretty good start.