[Y]ou begin to suspect that George W. Bush doesn't get it about democracy. He uses the word but doesn't feel it in his bones.
Doesn't our president understand that there are two different kinds of nations in the world? There are nations where the rulers are determined by heredity—where the person in charge is in charge for no better reason than that his or her father was in charge before him. Then there are nations where the rulers are determined by democracy—where the person in charge is in charge because he or she got the most votes in an election among the citizens. And in this great divide, the United States stands proudly on the side of …of …
Oh, never mind.
This is why I like Michael Kinsley,