Seance in the Oval Office

Everyone caught on to Bush's pained candor at his press conference with Tony Blair: "It's bad in Iraq. How's that?"

But did you see this one?

"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die."

He so doesn't want to be there. You can measure the degree to which he isolates himself by the degree to which his features withdraw to the center of his face. Seriously, look sometime. By 2009, there's just going to be a little black dot where his nose used to be.