"In their abuse, hid critics demonstrate their own weak hold on reality."
Sorry, Mr. Anderson, but an aphorism isn't the same thing as truth, and this aphorism is a particularly lame one.
A great historian is part astute psychologist, part imaginative artist, and part clever detective, but even such a rare person is unlikely to blurt out a revisionist judgment before Bush's bottom has left the chair in the Oval Office.
And Mr. Anderson is certainly not such a person.
We have all lived through Bush - eight years of his stammering, dishonesty, and abuse - and it is actually pretentious to tell us that we are wrong and Bruce Anderson is right.
It is not just a popular opinion of Bush that he is an incompetent. Millions of thoughtful, well-informed people have reached that conclusion based on eight years of first-hand experience.
Of course, the surest way for a writer to grab some attention for himself is to write a piece like Mr. Anderson's, but attention is not the same thing as saying something true and significant, which Mr. Anderson most assuredly has not.
Indeed, in future, the many shameful flaws and errors of Bush, both in office and before, will come to light from wherever they have been hidden, and Bush will be shown even a shabbier character than we think him today.
FRAME FROM A VIDEO OF BUSH AT A SPORTS ARENA BEFORE HE BECAME COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
