If people have been standing outside your house for seven years yelling “doom, doom, doom” into a microphone, it’s natural that you’d start to think “doom, doom, doom.”

The press has been at war with GWB since the fall of 2000. There is very little they would not do to take him down, which task they apparently consider a moral imperative.

That said, I’m not sure the press will get its way in the next opinion poll that actually counts: the ’08 elections.