Anyone read
this NYT article about "Bush Time?"
The teetotaling president retires around 9 p.m., even when he has guests, and takes to bed a giant briefing book to read as preparation for the following day.
Given that we know the daily briefing paper was already too daunting for GWB (he has an even shorter summary actually read to him), how is this credible? A man whose favorite book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar?"
And while the article indulges Kerry's wonderings about how the President can use his time so...creatively, why was the above-quoted sentence necessary? Did they have to repeat "teetotaling?" I would hope it is assumed both that we know Bush is a born-again ex-alcoholic, and that any Leader of the Free World is not up late doing shots every night.
Finally, I don't think it is credible that GWB hunkers down with a "giant briefing book" to bone up each evening. He aggressively avoids reading in all other contexts. The NYT would have been more correct to note that its only possible purpose could have been as a soporific.