Some Days, I Wind Up Thinking I May Be Smarter Than I Already Thought...

Was reading through a post from November of 2000, and saw that I'd written the following about Bush:

This is a man whose success in business has come, not from his own efforts, but from knowing the right people to bankroll him (and in one case, in knowing exactly when to unload the stock that other people had bankrolled him on.) I just don't trust him any further than I could comfortably take his appendix out (with all due apologies to Douglas Adams for the theft of the preceding phrase, along with a quick reminder of Fair Use.) In Texas, a state where the Governor was given as little power as the framers of the State Constitution could get away with, he's still managed to screw up enough of the important stuff on the quality-of-life index. Give the man real power, and I shudder to think what he can do to us all. The way he handwaves questions about exactly how he's going to manage to give the same trillion dollars from social security to the young and old scare me, and while his ability to not quite say what he wants to say (or not say what he wants to say in clear English) gave the press a lot of cute sound bites, the way he lies about things like his record in the National Guard does not give me any faith in his ability to play straight with us on anything that matters.

Could I call it, or what?