I certainly don’t think that there should be a rule that retired Presidents or other government officials should comment on current government policy, especially when the policies are almost inevitably disasters. As virtually everything the Bush Administration has become. Hopefully there are still people in the world who believe the United States is still capable of electing a government of intelligent, competent, and honorable people. This Administration has none of those qualities, and it’s good for the rest of the world to hear from time to time that there are people who realize that our current policies are disasters. It gives the world (and us, of course) hope that things will change for the better in the future.

And then, idiots like the Peanut President turn around and trash the best ally this country has had since the end of the war of 1812.

And have we revised the rules for behavior that used to govern the conduct of ex-presidents? Have we also trashed the idea that “politics stops at the water’s edge?”

Or, like so many other rules of conduct or ethics do those standards continue to apply ONLY to Republicans?

So either the majority of Americans have been “hoodwinked”, as you say, into thinking that we are “bad”, or maybe the majority of Americans have come to realize that the policies of the Bush Administration have been catastrophic failures that have cost thousands of our soldiers’ lives, tens of thousands of casualities, and hundreds of billions of dollars. With the end result being an Iraq teetering on the brink of civil war, Iran the biggest beneficiary of our policies, bin Laden still on the loose, and pretty much everyone in the Middle East hating our guts.

I think the majority of Americans are proud to be Americans. I think most of us believe our country is pretty great. Unfortunately, we do have something to be ashamed of. We failed in our duty as citizens and elected a man like George W. Bush as our President. Twice. History will not be kind to Mr. Bush, as he will certainly go down as one of the worst (if not the worst) President in US history, and his decision to go to war with Iraq one of the great foreign policy blunders of all-time. Still, We the People must accept some of the blame as well. We put him into office. Including a mind-boggling second term. We should be ashamed of ourselves, and hopefully the electorate will partially atone in November by turing the House and/or the Senate over to the Democrats and hopefully freeze the last two years of his term in amber.