He's a sentimental man. Add to that, his religiosity and sense of entitlement and you've got a dangerous and volatile personality.

I know, I know, most people don't necessarily think of sentimentality right off the bat when thinking about bush's worst character flaws, but I hate it and tend to notice it when an extreme example is in front of me.

When I think sentimental I think mawkish, bathetic, puppy dogs frolicking in the rain and young autistic boys who come off the bench to make 10 3 pointers in the last 5 minutes of the big high school game. I think of bush with his arm around the kid saying "call me george w."

It does something unpleasant to my stomach.

Some aide probably thought the visit up, but I don't think he put his arm around the kid because he's a coldly calculating opportunist. It's because he's a true believer and a sentimental man. That means he's both stubborn and manipulatable, paradoxical as that may seem.

Bush is the type of person whose emotions run shallow and syrupy. He'll cry over the feats of a 14 year old autistic kid, but he's unable to grasp the tragedy of civilians dying by the hundreds each day in Iraq. He doesn't feel responsible for the soldiers he sent to die for a, well, we all know what comes after that. He experiences some muddled thoughts about saving Americans,flags and Islamofascists; maybe some mournful trumpet music and a reminder that God chose him, thrown in.

Sounds like a crusade to me. And it's scary.