More on Bush's Strange Friday News Conference

Larry Johnson is known as a straight-forward critic of Bush but he too noticed how strange Bush was during his press conference last Friday. Here's Johnson's post in No Quarter and his last two paragraphs as he compares Bush to the famous Captain Queeg of Wouk's, The Caine Mutiny:

George Bush is the Captain Queeg of the U.S.S. America. The ship and her crew--the American people--are endangered by his sins of omission and commission. When warned in August of 2001 by the CIA that Al Qaeda was ready to strike inside the United States, he did nothing to confront the threat. Then came 9-11. Since unleashing the dogs of war in Iraq, terrorist attacks in which people are killed and wounded have quadrupled. Surrendering the high ground earned during the Cold War against the Soviet Union, George Bush approves secret prisons, torture, and trials with secret evidence. Actions once considered unique to Soviet tyrants are now staining the garments of the cloak of American justice.

Instead of mature, measured leadership, America is saddled with a man that would probably frighten the fictional Captain Queeg. Like the character portrayed by Humphrey Bogart, George Bush compensates for his insecurity and inadequacy with shows of bravado and choleric indignation. But this ain't the movies folks. This is real. Like the crew of the U.S.S. Caine, there is a growing realization that the Captain is a little crazy....

Read the whole post. The strangest thing about Bush, as Johnson reminds us, is that he seems to resent his responsibilities as president. Makes you wonder just what exactly Cheney and Rumsfeld promised Bush.