Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.