Bored at work today, I was reading McSweeney's Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush.

While nothing the president says can really astonish me much, there were two particular quotes that just made me angry.

Day 32: In 1999 Bush said that he didn't like to read long books, especially when they were about policy.

For his first two years in office, the president's staff spent only 30 to 45 minutes a week discussing policy with him. Clinton spent the same amount of time per day on the subject.

In 2003 Bush told Fox News that he rarely reads newspapers beyond their headlines.

Um, why would you want to be president if you had a particular distaste for policy? I mean really. I'm not a presidential scholar and I've never read over a job description for the Office of the President, United States, but I'm pretty sure that "inclination to interpret and write sound policy" would be on the list. I mean because when your President and you do your job by creating policy, right?

So, why does Bush want to be president? He takes more vacations that any other president in history, he doesn't like policy, or foreign countries, or working late. I really think he would be better suited riding a lawn mower on the side of a highway working for some D.O.T. I really think he would like that better too.

DAY 36: "I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." — President George Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

While this statement seems fairly obvious after Dubya said that he couldn't think of ANYTHING his administration has done wrong during the "War on Terror," but what really bothers me about this is that people will give this man a vote knowing that he isn't very "analytical." Do you really want a president that can't think his way out of a wet paper bag? One that actually boasts that he can't think his way out of a wet paper bag?

I really don't understand.