I Take It Back

Bush is not completely delusional.

"I understand that racism still lingers in America," Bush told the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's a lot easier to change a law than to change a human heart. And I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party."

You've got to hand it to the Republican machine, they've certainly succeeded at redefining the political consensus. Who'd have thought that it would one day feel like a great success to have the President merely acknowledge the existence of racism in a speech to the NAACP?

I'd feel better if I felt he meant "I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party" to mean, 'I can see why many African-Americans distrust my party" and not "I've been told that, etc." It would be nice to feel like he understood that the policies and rhetoric of his party are the problem, not merely a poor marketing effort.