What was it about the look on Bush's face while he delivered the State of the Union address? That grin, I thought as I watched the president of all the people. It seemed infuriatingly familiar. But why? Then it came to me. I've seen grins like that on the faces of men who have just bluffed me out of a big pot at the poker table with nothing in their hands. Bush may be president of the people, but he is not president by the people. Most Americans who voted in the 2000 election cast their ballots for someone else. He is president because a majority of one on the Supreme Court decided he should be. No wonder the man's grinning. He has taken that fluke and turned it into a mandate to change America militarily, diplomatically, economically and culturally. The address and the grin with which it was delivered were reminders of all that.
February 5, 2004 6:34 AM
