According to Washington Post writer Peter Baker, George Bush invited theologians, historians, authors and even philosophers to the White House.

Apparently with his swiftly sinking popularity, which according to the latest NBC-Wall Street Journal Poll has plummeted to 27 percent, George Bush is concerned abut his legacy.

Baker quoted Alistair Horne, an historian from England, who responded to his White House invitation for a visit.  Horne simply observed that even though Bush is in touch daily with cabinet officials and aides, " ... At the end of the day ... it must be difficult for him to get out and about."  What that observation has to do with Bush's legacy is nothing!

Peter Baker confirms this observation by reporting, "Bush largely stays inside the fortress at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The paradox is that the right has been proven wrong again and again, as well as hypocritical.  The hypocrisy was blatant in the case of the Vietnam War, a track record now being equaled if not surpassed by the Cheney-Bush brigade's actions and comments on the Iraq War.

Currently those who dare criticize Cheney, Bush and other administration operatives for rushing America to war on demonstrably proven false information are denounced as damaging America at a time the country is waging a war against terrorism.  

Better than a generation ago Nixon and his hired guns declared themselves to be seeking to perpetuate freedom on behalf of the "silent majority," and were allegedly being opposed by those who were accused of "running down America."

It was a period of turbulent division that saw scores of American young men leave the country and travel to Canada, some never to return, rather than go to Vietnam to fight in a war they genuinely believed to be wrong.