What else could he feel?
Could you imagine holding the most powerful position in the world and then squandering your power, completely letting down the people you promised to lead, leaving the country worse off than when you got there? That's some tough medicine to swallow. Denial or obliviousness, I'm not sure which, works. He's got to keep believing that he done good.
WaPo: Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet and there are ample signs that the nation is hungering for a new direction. Yet Bush's aides say they believe the public's attitude has improved -- apparently because he sees less hostility on his increasingly furtive trips outside the White House --- and in a meeting yesterday with a group of sycophantic journalists, Bush insisted that he's in a great mood.
