Texas, just like Iraq

In his remarks, Bush noted that he is one of 19 presidents who have served in the National Guard -- in Bush's case, as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War era. That tenure, and questions over whether Bush met his responsibilities, erupted in Bush's reelection effort last year.

I don't know what I fear most: that the sitting president is fucking insane, or that there are still some out there (mostly in Idaho, I understand) who still hysterically support everything he says or does.

Locals lined up before dawn to get some of the leftover tickets for the speech, and they gave the president more than a dozen standing ovations during his 43-minute speech. Jill Blue, whose brother Marty is serving in the Air Force, said she was reassured by Bush's words. "I'm glad that he's seeing out the job. I liked what he said about honoring the people who have died by not pulling out. It was a good comment."

Meanwhile, in Freeperland, they're now calling for Senator Hagel's "head on a pike."

With the President's approval rating at a Nixonian 36% with the Republicans pubicly debating both sides of the nation's core issue, the "war is over but Bush doesn't know it" theme continue to grow rapidly -- almost as rapidly as the rabid responses of the increasingly crazed Bush supporters. This small group is virtually parallel to the membership of FreeRepublic, where one poster called for Hagel's head on a pike and enjoined: "Let's pray for President George W. Bush, the Greatest War-Time President in American History." Not only does that do a terrible disservice to the memory of James Polk, but it places the mob mentality of the right squarely in the public eye: your [sic] with us, or the guillotine.