Bush Verses Reality

Fred Kaplan in Slate outlines the difference between Bush's speech and well, the real world.

It's a very effective speech (the Oak Ridge scientists greeted each repetition with stormy applause), unless you take a closer look at the examples it cites—in which case questions of comparative safety (are you safer now than you were three years ago?) seem at best ambiguous and in some cases downright depressing.

The more time spent looking at the world, the worst the case for Bush is.