Bravo!

[hotwine]

Folks, W's going to do just fine. He's a graduate of Yale, the Harvard Business School, and was an F-16 pilot in the Guard, for Pete's sake. That's hardly the background of a numbnuts. Yes, he lacks "stagecraft" (I think it was CCK who used that expression...), but he's not had the Lollywood grooming of a showman; he's genuine. As his comfort level with the cameras improves, so will his stage presence. How many of us could step in front of the international press, and look like anything other than a deer in the headlights?
As for the general: he is no quitter! Even when he found himself surrounded by the Clinton crowd, who were making policies that he couldn't support, he hung in there, and withdrew gracefully at a time of his own choosing, when his withdrawal would have a minimal political impact. No, he'll stay - unless his family comes to need him more at home.
I just wish I had gotten to know him. Instructors and students in OCS never associated with each other outside the classroom. And when graduation finally came in Jan '67, all I wanted to do was hit the road, even though it led to combat. Anything was better than Benning! That was the most miserable six months of my life! I still look on it that way, even with what was to follow in '68 at Hue', Khe Sahn, A Shau Valley. At least, I didn't have to go back to Benning!

To hell with money market funds! I'm for buying futures contracts on Lysol and Clorox, the supplies of which are going to grow mighty short in D.C. as the Bush team cleans house!