The Un Bush

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=200681&f=77

"I have set before the American people an energy plan, the Lex-eegton Project," Mr. McCain said, drawing a quick breath and correcting himself. "The Lex-ing-ton Proj-ect," he said slowly. "The Lexington Project," he repeated. "Remember that name."

At first I was a litle skeptical of the just like Bush line, but increasingly am amazed at how true it really is. It isn't just that he has trouble with big words or is so unfamiliar with his own policy proposals that he doesn't even know how what they are called, but how he somehow twists it as 'folkiness'.

And if you need more there is the fact that everyone on his staff seems to carry the title 'former Bush campaign ...'. Or that he is oblivious to what life is like for most Americans - the price of gas, how to pump it, what a computer does.

On the flip side, where Bush's early years were financed by his dad's friends, senator McCain was financed by the friends of his second wife's dad. And his wife isn't nearly as classy as Laura Bush, who has quietly been one of the most graceful, effective and important first lady's since Eleanor Roosevelt.