Reflections on Reading the Results of President Bush's Annual Physical Examination

Try to imagine what it would be like.

They said it would be easy but it turned out to be hard.

They said everyone would love you but it turns out they don't.

They said Dick Cheney would take care of everything, but he screwed everything up.

They said, just stand next to Tony Blair and let him do the talking, but whenever he did, you looked like a moron.

They said, it would be a piece of cake, but it turned out to be a quagmire.

They said it would cost $50 billion, but it's costing $400 billion.

They said it would be good for Israel, they said slam dunk, they said dancing in the streets, they said minimal casualties.

Try to imagine what it would be like.

And then you tell me how it's possible for anyone under these conditions to have a resting heart rate of 46 beats per minute.

And yet he does. How is it possible?