Jonah, your correspondent’s joke about Bush being described as Hitler with a better haircut reminds me of CNN on Tuesday, where “Crossfire” host Paul Begala declared after reading the quite possibly ersatz Bush boast-quote:
“The Bush White House, face it, it’s kind of become a little like North Korea, where the addled son of the former leader suffers delusions of grandeur while sycophantic toadies tell him he’s infallible and then viciously attack those who criticize him. George W. Bush is Kim Jong Il with better hair.”