Regarding the GWB self image, these insightful responses to the Russert ("Meet the Press") interview of February 2004:

"He didn't so much answer questions as paint a picture of a place called Georgeland, a special place where he lives and the rules are different and in which everything he does is noble, well-meaning and justified."
--Tim Dunlop

"the only clarity in the president's vision appears to be his own perfect sense of self-justification."
--NYT Opinion

"the ugly reality behind the Regime's bright sham."
"performance ... was so abysmal, so completely divorced from the waking reality of the rest of the world, that even his faithful spear-carriers in the far-right horde -- not mention the power-worshipping poltroons of the mainstream media -- reacted as if they'd been slapped upside the head with a particularly dank and smelly mackerel. They're shocked -- shocked! -- to find incompetence in this establishment!"
--Chris Floyd

"The US can lose its dominance only as a result of its own mistakes. At present the country is in the process of committing such mistakes because it is in the hands of a group of extremists whose strong sense of mission is matched only by their false sense of certitude."
--George Soros

Maureen Dowd picked it up as Bushworld.