The President's Constitution in pictures?

Juan Cole, the blogging professor of history at the University of Michigan, offers a slightly different commentary on the president's second inauguration: "A Pictorial Commentary on the first Line in Bush's Inaugural Speech". Check it out: These points highlight the massive inconsistencies between the administration's rhetoric and the facts on the ground. If the press and news media were doing their job - I mean really doing their job - these inconsistencies would be given far greater prominance.

It is fascinating to watch President Bush in action. Unlike Condoleezza Rice, who stonewalls when presented with unpleasant facts (as happened during her Senate Foreign Relations committee confirmation hearings), Bush simply makes the rhetoric more flowery, more grandiose - and of course he never admits mistakes. Ever. The most fascinating thing about this is that it works. The mainstream media either a.) can't, b.) won't, or c.) can't be bothered to try to seriously challenge this approach.