THE OPACITY OF TRANSPARENCY:

Parting thoughts (Georgie Anne Geyer, January 1, 2009 , Washington Times)

[I]n these last few weeks before the turn of the New Year our formerly mysterious outgoing president and vice president (you do remember them?) have been busily baring their souls before the press. And their "revelations" have turned out to be about as interesting as they have been as human beings.

President George W. Bush, to start with, tried in a series of interviews, and in particular one with The Washington Times, to present himself as a kind of socially conscious conservative. He told the paper he had worked hard to lift minorities by expanding opportunities for small businesses. "No Child Left Behind is a piece of civil rights legislation," he was quoted.

While he naturally spoke in all the 10 interviews granted as of this writing about the wars, his stress in the Times interview was on leaving behind a safer country, plus leaving the "tools behind so that future presidents could have the intelligence necessary and the means necessary to respond to intelligence to protect the country."

He governed Texas as a compassionate conservative, ran for president as a compassionate conservative, governed America as a compassionate conservative, and leaves office proud of his record of compassionate conservatism. What could be more mysterious to the sufferer of BDS?

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