A nice guy in one role, a disaster in another: I believe if George Bush were my next-door neighbor, or the neighborhood hardware merchant, I would like him. He has some likable traits. I would probably like to have a beer with him–except he says he doesn’t drink.

But, as President I believe that he is a tragic misfit. I am afraid that, as a nation, we and our children will have to pay for his many misguided actions for a long time.

The following commentary on Bush's claim that his "faith" guides him in all that he does is well said:

...for a president of the United States who combines ideological extremism with intellectual laziness, and tops them off with serial dishonesty, this type of "faith" is a recipe for disaster. It is America's peculiar burden at the dawn of the new century that its citizens--a majority of whom did not even choose to elect Mr. Bush to be their president in the first place--must now reap what he has sown.

(The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America, by Eric Alterman and Mark Green, Penguin Books, New York, 2004, p. 339)