Emotional colon

Edmund Morris, Reagan biographer, writes that our poor presidents are really sweethearts (except for Clinton, of course, and probably also Carter) who must avoid emotionality in order to do their job. "Emotional predators" such as Sheehan and the other parents of dead soldiers ought to stay out of Bush's way.

Maybe one day some such document will reveal what President Bush really feels about his own "honored dead." For the meantime, he is our elected president, with the business of a nation to run. Ms. Sheehan has gotten more time with him than most grieving mothers, and if she felt, during those unsatisfactory minutes, that there was a glass wall around him, it unfortunately comes with the job. A president has to protect himself from emotional predators, or he'd be sucked dry within a week of taking office.

I get the idiotic point that presidents have a job to do. But they also ought not to run for president if they're so emotionally fragile as to worry about the emotionality of a mother with a dead son. Assholes.