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Get a load of this cringe-making prose.

Readers looking for West Wing intrigue will be disappointed by the [Karen] Hughes book; when the subject is the President or Hughes' colleagues in the Administration, Ten Minutes from Normal is all kiss and no tell. Bush is presented as "humble," "wonderful," "tough-minded," "decent and thoughtful," with a "laserlike ability to distill an issue to its core" and "a knack for provoking discussion." Even his tendency to mangle words is a sign, to Hughes, of a "highly intelligent" mind outpacing a sluggish tongue.
(via Time)

So KaWen's a fluffer too. Sad. Of course, while the dastardly Clarke is trying to—shudder—profit from his book, Hughes is only trying to set the straight....

As for "laser-like"—and let me start typing fast here before my head explodes—typing "Bushism" into Google and hitting "I'm feeling lucky" gets you here ....