Steve Bell on George Bush

See this very funny interactive slideshow on The Guardian's website, in which cartoonist Steve Bell describes the evolution of his depictions of U.S. President George W. Bush. 'Not a complete idiot, you don't get to that position by being a complete idiot but the values he seems to enshrine are values of ignorance and stupidity and arrogance.' A bit harsh maybe, although most of my American friends would tend to agree... Mr Bell concludes with his picture of George Bush and Tony Blair as two lame ducks walking into the sunset...

In fact I am finding it quite difficult to imagine how a rather personable man like Mr Bush has managed to attract so much negative publicity onto himself and taken so many poor decisions. For the most part I would blame it on really, really bad advice and also perhaps on Mr Bush's contention to do what he believes is 'right.' In politics there is no such thing as being 'right,' and being too sure of oneself is bound to offend people who disagree and live according to different moral values. As it turned out, even the CIA is often patently wrong in its conclusions. Government is not an exact science!

I'm not generally a huge fan of the Guardian, as I find their articles more often then not exhibit a strong leftist bias that's not always of the most reasonable kind. But-I shall miss Steve Bell's caricatures of George Bush, I must say =)