You're confusing him with facts. Ideologically he's got to believe Clinton encouraged OBL and Bush is his mortal enemy.

He'd rather be seen as a fool than admit he's wrong. When reality butts up against ideology these people choose not to think or ponder. The ideology is always right, by definition. There isn't the intellectual ability to weigh fact against theory.

That is so alien to most people that we cannot believe it and insist that facts should have some bearing upon what people believe.

But then, you're dealing with someone who has put a firm moral basis under greed. Imagine!

Arf

("Since September 11, President Bush and his supporters have repeatedly intimated that many of the President's political opponents are soft on terrorism. In his State of the Union address, the President declared: "We can go forward with confidence and resolve, or we can turn back to the dangerous illusion that terrorists are not plotting and outlaw regimes are no threat to us." In comments aimed at those who seek changes in the Patriot Act, Attorney General John Ashcroft said: "Your tactics only aid terrorists." One recent ad asserts, "Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others.")