Watching the NBC inaugural coverage, I note the following: Constant

reference by Tim Russert to the fact that the president “only has a 50

percent approval rating”; Doris Kearns (“oops, I plagiarized again”)

Goodwin and Robert Dallek discussing how high a hurdle Bush has because

Iraq is his Vietnam; how divided the country is; etc. etc. You would

think it was mid-October, not mid-January, and that the president

hadn’t received 62 million votes.