With only days left in office for the 43rd president of the United States of America, George W. Bush, I decided, on a lark — or a duck, if you will — to Skype the soon to be ex-commander in chief to find out what preoccupies his thoughts as he bids us a solemn farewell. I want to share this very exclusive interview with you, dear readers, so that you will be able to evaluate what President Bush himself calls "the long and short of history, with emphasis on the latter."
But before I do, I think it only proper that I expose my own biases, so that you will be able to objectively judge my conversation with this unique president. As I have mentioned in these pages before, I was once a citizen of the United States of America, having had what can only be called the divine privilege of being born within its borders. I forfeited that citizenship — oh yes! — in 1976 . . . because, oh Lord, I had a dream! Yes, I dreamed that in that very same year a certain George W. Bush, graduate of Yale University, would be arrested for driving under the influence (of what, it has never been revealed), fined and have his license suspended for two years. And I knew at that moment, dear readers, that I could no longer be a citizen of a country that would so cruelly punish a man who was one day destined, by dint of derivation and devious dealings (now you can see why some of us are journalists and others are mere alliterators), to be president.
That is where the dream turned into a nightmare.