George hasn't "checked out," his handlers have written him off

josh, josh, josh... george never spoke with his own voice anyway... he was simply handed a script and coached on his part... what you're seeing is that his handlers have written him off, not that he's "checked out..."

Is it just me or has George W. Bush checked out of the stumbling national crisis we know as 'Iraq'?

I know his name shows up in the headlines. He's meeting Iraq Prime Minister Maliki next week in Amman. Vice President Cheney is shuttling to Saudi Arabia. And all of this is being billed as a part of a new and broader 'regional' approach to getting the conflict under some measure of control.

But I don't hear the president. Not his voice. The one thing that's been a constant over the last three and a half years is the president as the voice of American Iraq policy. Whether he's the author of it is another question entirely. But the voice and pitbull of it, always.

And yet since the election he seems to have disappeared from the conversation entirely. Like he's just checked out. It's not his thing anymore.

bush never "checked in" in the first place, and his "checking out" now is meaningless as long as he-who-must-not-be-named (rove) and cheney are still ensconced in the white house... other than being a dolt, george has never been the REAL problem... if we could get rid of those two and their evil entourage (hadley, addington, etc.), we might be able to honestly say we have a lame duck administration... now...? not at all...

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