I snagged this pic off CNN's front page. It's from the Boris Yeltsin funeral. Pretty good shot of the last two presidents I voted for. One of them twice.

George the elder, smarter is starting to showing his age a little, isn't he? I just checked, and he's 83 in June. The lines in his face have really deepened over the last err... 6 years or so. I wonder what it's like to be him these days? The guy who chose not to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein predicting that it would lead to a huge fucking mess. Even wrote a book about it. He was vilified for that decision by bloodthirsty neo-cons. Now, as events in Iraq have proven him oh so right, he doesn't get to crow about it because he's a father. Even with the neo-con hegemonic ideals going up in flames in Iraq, he would never - could never - publicly express anything but support for his dumb-ass son. Even when he tosses that son a life-line in the form of the Iraq Study Group and the son scoffs at it. I bet he's angry and sad inside.