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"I came with the idea of changing the tone in Washington, and frankly didn't do a very good job of it."

a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19bush.html?partner=permalinkamp;exprod=permalink""You know, war brings out a lot of heated rhetoric and a lot of emotion. I fully understand that."/abr /br /object height="344" width="425"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K5KmJtxjhu0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K5KmJtxjhu0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"/embed/objectbr /br /"Reflections by a guy who?s headed out of town... An old sage at 62 ... headed to retirement."br /br /He looks utterly depleted and sad. Look how he slumps in the chair -- drained even of the vanity that it would take to make the slight effort it would take to hide his pot belly.br /br /ADDED: Bush has many defenders in the comments, including people who are chiding me for criticizing him for slumping in a manner that is unflattering to his physique. And I thought I'd written a pretty sympathetic post.br /br /AND: a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081218-2.html"Here/a's the whole transcript. Excerpts:br /blockquoteI have found that in order to have good decision-making and a White House that functions well, that the President needs to articulate a set of principles from which he will not defer. In other words, a set of principles that are inviolate -- such as the universality of freedom....br /br /Part of the presidency is the willingness to say, no matter how tough the issue may look, if it requires solution, go after it. And we did....br /br /[QUESTION] span style="font-style: italic;"What advice do you have for political conservatives in the years ahead?/spanbr /br /[I]t's important to recruit good candidates who stand on principle. Most Americans believe what we believe -- that government ought to be limited and wise, that taxes ought to be low, that we ought to encourage entrepreneurship and small businesses, and that we ought to have a strong national defense..../blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a/div

Full post as published by Althouse on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).