Why It's Essential That History Sees Bush as the Nadir of American Politics

I just sent this letter to the White House:

Dear Mr. Bush,

I have a four month old son. I want to teach him everything I know about the United States in general and your presidency in particular, starting with this day, when I finally reached a point of awe regarding your time in office.

By commuting the sentence of I. Lewis Libby, Jr., you may hope you've walled yourself off from accountability but you've also sealed your legacy in a terrarium of lies, forever on display.

On the off-chance that any form of honest dissent can slip past the creatures who tend your moral micro-climate, and speaking as someone who didn't vote for you but does help pay for the tragic tantrums you call policy, I want you to know I will take every legal action in my power to see that the glass separating you from the world you peer out at with such unearned disdain is shattered.

I am doing this in the hope that my son never has to feel the kind of shame and outrage you engender in every thoughtful being on this planet. Because if you are not someday impartially judged for the myriad offenses you've committed as chief executive we may yet live under a worse leader, which could only signal that we have sacrificed our freedom as a nation and our sanity as a people.

So I will hereby devote every second I can spare, every ally I can rally, the last dime I can afford and all that I might borrow to see that this dystopia never occurs. For my son's sake, I want to make sure that history sees you as the absolute nadir in American politics, not just another dispiriting rung on its continuing descent.

Yours very truly,

John McNamara