My mother has been a staunch Republican for 72 of her 80 years.  She’ll tell you now that she always voted for the best candidate, regardless of party affiliation, but I don’t recall too many "best candidates" from the Democratic side of the aisle.  That is, until George Bush came along.  She pegged him for a dangerous sociopath from the beginning.  She was even more upset than I was after the Supremes handed him the oval office.  I remember the next day, talking to her on the phone, when I said not to be so anxious about it (she has what I call chronic acute anxiety).  After all, how much damage could he do in four years?   She said she was afraid he could do an unimaginable amount of damage in that time.  I stand corrected.  I also digress.

The subject is, of course, very old news to everyone here in the blog world and certainly Daily Kos, but I was truly astounded by the tone and adjectives used in an AP article in the Yahoo top 5 at the moment.

Bush Dismisses CIA Leak as Old News

The presser is where Bush tried to explain how the lack of progress in Iraq is really progress, but the questions are about the Plame leak.

First and foremost, let me give props to Jennifer Loven who is credited with writing the article.  It opens like this:

President Bush always said he would wait to talk about the CIA leak case until after the investigation into his administration's role. On Thursday, he skipped over that step and pronounced the matter old news hardly worth discussing.

Jennifer, way to call him on what he says versus what he does.

Follow me over the fold for some more goodies.  

Hat Tip to BarbinMD who has a diary on the rec list about the Bush/Blair press conference.  I was going to post this in the comments there, but it was getting too long, so I thought I would throw it out there as a diary.  What Bush said is in the boxes.

I have never written a diary before, and this is not a long one, but I just have to rant...  

I am ashamed of our self-centered, self-important, self-righteous nation.  

I rarely watch the morning news anymore, finding the talking heads to be inane and infuriating.  However, I turned it on this morning, looking for up-to-date information on the train bombings in India.  As the Today Show opened, the leader line went something like this:

"Security is heightened in major American cities this morning following the bombings in the financial district of Mumbai."

Not "India deals with the tragic aftermath of the brutal, coordinated bombings of yesterday"  Not "A nation grieves after nearly 200 are killed and over 700 are wounded in train bombings".

No, it's all about America.