Okay this is the last time I’m going to post on this because I don’t think it’s nearly as interesting as the pro-Patriot act stuff. But I didn’t say that the weak Veep-turned-President was Bush. I merely say that this aspect of his personality is meant to conjure the charge that Bush chickened out after 9/11. I don’t think, as far as literary devices go, a character has to be a complete doppelganger of a real life person in order to score this kind of point.

Let me put it another way, when was the last time a presidential figure was portrayed as a coward for wanting to go to his bunker in this way? If it hadn’t been for 9/11 and the Moore-meme on this point, I sincerely doubt the writers would have come up with the idea.