On the other hand, while I am not trained for the research of that stuff, I have an uncanny sense when it comes to reading people. I can tell when president Bush is being “less than forthcoming” and that 6th sense has proven out repeatedly. Sometimes you need to go with your gut feelings, and that is why I concede that Frank has a (as in singular) FACT and his five bucks … and not much else on this one …. but I did like his site, style and attitude and will visit there often. Like you, he has something to say, so I will give him a listen and perhaps learn something.

My impression is that Wilson did a lazy and half-assed job on his Niger assignment, missed the fact that Saddam was, in fact, shopping there, covered his ass poorly later and fell victim to his own partisan nature. And that the statement in Bush’s SoU address was fundamentally correct, even if the administration, typically, based it on the one bit of evidence that turned out to be fake.

It is often asserted to me here that my impressions of what is thought on the left only reflect the extreme left, not the mainstream. So I’m curious to know whether this perception is right or not. As someone once said, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. Closing up those fact-gaps seems to me an important job for a political center.

Maybe the legacy could be … George bush did a relly poor job, BUT Frank still has his five bucks.