Defining Pres. Dullard

Reading Al Gore's The Assault on Reason on the train ride home tonight had me shaking my head slowly at these tragic truths:

There are many people in both political parties who worry that there is something deeply troubling about President Bush's relationship to reason, his disdain for facts, and his lack of curiousity about any new information that might produce a deeper understanding of the problems and politics that he is supposed to wrestle with on behalf of the country.
Yet Bush's incuriousity and seeming immunity to doubt is sometimes interpreted by people who see him and hear him on television as evidence ot the strength of his conviction, even though it is this very inflexibility -- this willful refusal even to entertain alternative opinions or conflicting evidence -- that poses the most serious danger to our country.
By the same token, the simplicity of many of Bush's pronouncements is often misinterpreted as evidence that he has penetrated to the core of a complex issue, when in fact exactly the opposite is true: They often mask his refusal even to consider complexity. And that's particularly troubling in a world where the challenges America faces are often quite complex and require rigorous, sustained, disciplined analysis.

Could the Gods of Fate have chosen a worse Oval Office occupant for the post-9/11 world?