I’ve just been watching Bill Clinton give his address to the delegates at the Democratic Convention.  What a great speaker.  I’m a democrat and always have been.  I’ve always thought that — despite his peccadilloes — Clinton was a fine leader.  And notwithstanding the fact that I agreed with everything he said, watching Clinton made me hearken back to a time when presidents were men accustomed to public speaking, men of eloquence and vision.  I can look at someone like Clinton and think, there is a man who is smarter than me, able to make great decisions and bear the burden of high office.  So I felt when Clinton was in office, so I did when Carter was in office.  So I did even when George H.W. Bush was in office.  The problem now is that George W. Bush is not smarter than me, and not so much in office as in power.  He has all the eloquence of a rusty barnyard gate, all the presence of leadership of a rooster on the peak of the barn.   

God help us.  God Bless America.