American Mugabe

It would appear I'm not the only one to draw the comparison, same book different cover.

Bush is an arrogant and incapable buffoon, ridiculously puffed up with his rigidly held assurance of his own greatness by definition (as in, “I know I’m doing the right thing – and God agrees when I talk to him – so therefore I am, any and all evidence to the contrary.”) Most Americans now see that, even if they were embarrassingly slow to get there (and they were).

That possibility is a lot more easily contemplated, however, when considering somebody else’s president. So let us strip away these obstructions to visual clarity, let us begin with a fresh piece of paper, and let us recast this presidency on the basis of its record. And let’s do so without biasing suppositions of any sort influencing our vision, much as we might were we to observe the leader of a foreign state of whom, and of which, we know little.

Say, Zimbabwe, for example.

Imagine that you knew nothing about the president of Zimbabwe, but that you were informed that he liked to steal elections.