Anyone who saw Marilyn Monroe in "All About Eve" won't forget the honest but naive question she asked at Margo Channing's doomed party. Marilyn (Miss Caswell) was sitting on the steps with the elite members of Margo's world including Margo and Addison DeWitt, famed critic and Marilyn (Miss Caswell's) mentor.
Feeling her oats, having landed in the big leagues and wanting to say something smart to this group, Miss Caswell surveyed the producers and directors at the party, the money men, obsessed with power, insecure, on the make, and queried, "Why do they all look like unhappy rabbits?" Addison DeWitt smiled patiently and replied, "Because that's what they are, my dear."
Watching Rumsfeld unfocused and defensive, and Cheney in Iraq with his crooked, condescending smile pretending to dine with styrofoam and plastic, and Bush practically jumping up and down before the mikes, his body language telegraphing "Mommy, I didn't do anything wrong," I thought to myself, "Why do they all look like unhappy rabbits?"