OK, I'm not sure what it would take - money, drugs, threats - to get someone to put their byline on the drivel that AP just posted under Ben Feller's name.
A sample:
In sessions with policy experts, Bush tends to ask questions that get right to the nub of a sticky issue. His top aides speak regretfully about how the country never got to see that side of him, even after all this time. They describe a man who is deeply inquisitive, not blithely incurious as much of the world thinks.
When Bush wants answers, guessing isn't advised.
"He can sniff it out a mile away if you don't have the goods," said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan.
Lots more where that came from! But this particular line is the one that really caught my eye:
His tangled moments have undoubtedly helped shape an unflattering public perception; there are entire books of his "Bushisms." Invariably, though, people who talk to him privately — historians, journalists, dissidents — come away with a very different impression of a meticulous thinker.
Oh REALLY?
How about everyone throw out their favorite reflection on Bush's style in private? Here's mine, right off the bat, though I have a few others in mind:
Peter Galbraith – former U.S. diplomat: January 2003 the President invited three members of the Iraqi opposition to join him to watch the Super Bowl. In the course of the conversation the Iraqis realized that the President was not aware that there was a difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. He looked at them and said, "You mean...they’re not, you know, there, there’s this difference. What is it about?"