Arrested development

I know others have remarked on this one, but I want a record of what the fool said this time:

From FoxNews.com

Cutting short his vacation to return to the White House, Air Force One flew over the damaged areas of New Orleans as well as Slidell, La., and Gulfport, Pascagoula and Biloxi, Miss. During the 35-minute tour, Bush clearly saw from his vantage point the damage to the football stadium in New Orleans as well as the flooded neighborhoods, wiped out bridges and slabs of foundations where houses used to stand.

"It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush told aides during the flight. "It's totally wiped out."

Perspective-taking is a higher order intellectual skill that develops during adolescence. With a statement like this, we can't say the fool has no perspective-taking skills, but we can say that they aren't well developed. Look out the window of his private airplane, with his comfy seat, his cold drinks, and his own potty, even the fool can see that it's worse to actually be in the mess than to suffer from looking at it.

But … "doubly"? That reflects the stunted development of perspective-taking that we have seen evidenced all along the fool's presidency.