Bush's weakness: Kryptonite

Bush's admission of a "mistake" the other day remided me of my years of interviewing MBAs from top schools for jobs in the Fortune 50 companies where I worked.

Typical question: Tell me about a weakness of yours.

Typical answer: I just work too hard sometimes.

Bush's "mistake" was perfect: I am just too strong a president. I talk too tough. Appeals to his base, who want to bomb the ME till the rubble bounces, and to those who don't like his tough talk, because it sounds like he really gets it.

Here's what he didn't say:

* I made a mistake when I started a war because I felt like it, and caused the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings, and gave a like number of US soldiers and an entire nation PTSD from which they and their children will never recover.

* I made a mistake when I pissed away decades of carefully crafted and executed diplomacy and caused the world to stop trusing American for at least a generation, regardless of how rational the next president is, because no one will trust a country that is one election away from an irrational destructive idiot of a president.

* I made a mistake when I started a war with the one country in my Axis of Evil that did NOT have WMD, thus teaching the important lesson that we invade countries that do not have WMDs, not the ones that do, so everybody better go get some.

* I made a mistake when I decided that even though I have failed at everything I have ever tried and even though I know I am of average intellect at best and a total, proven, screw-up, that my judgement is good enough that I don't need the Constitution to provide boundaries of what I can and cannot do.

* I made a mistake when I put incompetent cronies into offices they had no ability to handle.

* I made a mistake in using New Orleans as a photo op to advance my personal popularity, when in reality I don't give a shit about New Orleans or the poor or black people in this country.

* I made a mistake when I thought God was speaking to me. Turns out it was Dick on a speaker phone.

* I made a mistake when I marginalized Colin Powell, the one guy in my administration that knew something about war, ignored his advice and used him only as a cheap shill to con the country and the world into supporting my war of choice in Iraq.

* I made a mistake when I was so arrogant and imperious that I drove the Chinese and Russians to work out their differences in hopes of being a counterbalance to US strength.

* I made a mistake when I pissed away 5 years (so far) of potential progress on the serious issue of global warming by pretending it's some kind of myth.

* I made a mistake when I marginalized science in favor of politics.

* I made a mistake when I cut taxes without cutting spending and so ballooned the deficit into the stratosphere, saddling children everywhere with the taxes their parents should be paying.

* I made a mistake when I thought I had any business whatsoever running for president.

But he admitted to none of these real mistakes. No, his mistake is that he's just too tough.