Presidenting While Stupid

JL Wilson has been trying to figure out whether GW Bush is evil or stupid: http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/08/stupid-option.html
I tend to go for a third option and reckon that he is evil AND stupid.

I used to quote an axiom, the source of which eludes me, that one should “never attribute to evil that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”. I don’t cite this much any more since I have decided that the distinction usually doesn’t matter. The outcome is the same whether it was brought on by an evildoer or a fool, and neither the evildoer nor the fool is amenable to instruction in the error if his ways.

And when it comes to GW Bush, if there should ever be a day of reckoning for him, he should not be allowed to raise the stupidity defense. Just as a drunk driver can’t get off a charge of vehicular homicide on the basis that he was too drunk to know what he was doing, Bush should never have presumed to become president while stupid. In a charge of “Presidenting While Stupid” (PWS), the accused is morally and criminally responsible for all the wrongdoing that occurs during the presidency. Bush had a moral obligation not to become president while he was stupid and to resign the presidency if his stupidity had its onset after the inauguration. Bush is particularly culpable since he ran for reelection when he was clearly already stupid and after he had already gotten the country involved in an idiotic war.