President Bush’s recent response to the Virginia Tech shootings makes me wish we had some sort of parliamentary/non-executive system wherein the Head of State is a separate office from the Head of Government.

President Bush, yesterday:

Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community.

Today our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts, we lift them up in our prayers, and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering today.

How can someone so eloquent in the face of national grief be so utterly incompetent when it comes to actually running the country?