How Do You Learn to Decide Things?

Is the Draper book that's coming out about Dear Leader supposed to be a biography or something along the lines of L'il Bush?  I figure that it has be to 100% ass-kissery but  Steve Benen found an excerpt at Kevin's place that sounds more like L'il Bush:

Bush, as always, bridled at the request to navel-gaze. “You’re the observer,” he said as he worked the cheese in his mouth. “I’m not. I really do not feel comfortable in the role of analyzing myself. I’ll try….

“You’ve gotta think, think BIG. The Iranian issue,” he said as bread crumbs tumbled out of his mouth and onto his chin, “is the strategic threat right now facing a generation of Americans, because Iran is promoting an extreme form of religion that is competing with another extreme form of religion. Iran’s a destabilizing force. And instability in that part of the world has deeply adverse consequences, like energy falling in the hands of extremist people that would use it to blackmail the West. And to couple all of that with a nuclear weapon, then you’ve got a dangerous situation. … That’s what I mean by strategic thought.

It's obvious and terrifying that to Dear Leader "thinking big" means killing a lot of people.

The great thinker continues with an insight into his uncanny statergical and insightifying abilities: (emph mine)

“I don’t know how you learn that. I don’t think there’s a moment where that happened to me. I really don’t. I know you’re searching for it. I know it’s difficult. I do know — y’know, how do you decide, how do you learn to decide things? When you make up your mind, and you stick by it — I don’t know that there’s a moment, Robert. I really — You either know how to do it or you don’t. I think part of this is it: I ran for reasons. Principled reasons. There were principles by which I will stand on. And when I leave this office I’ll stand on them.”

Ohmygod Ohmygod Ohmygod Ohmygod.   Read what Benen has to say.  It's teh funny.   

Comments

[Thomas Nephew]

I like what Yglesias wrote, too:
"It's be one thing for the president to be ignorant about Iran, the Persian Gulf more generally, energy markets, etc., if he realized he was ignorant. Instead, though, he seems to have convinced himself that his ignorance is some kind of virtue, exhibiting a deeper level of strategic understanding."