Who is Mr. Bush?

     Paul Begala knows him. Mr. Begala has compared him to President Clinton on CNN's Crossfire. Mr. Bush is obviously a great man among men, to be compared, even negatively, to a former President.
     Fred Barnes knows him. Mr. Barnes has written about his ideas for the partial privatization of Social Security. Mr. Bush is a brave man, for not even Ronaldus Maximus, the great President Reagan, wanted to go there.
     Howard Wolfson knows him. Mr. Wolfson seems to think he has the ability to replace Supreme Court Justices. Mr. Bush obviously weilds enormous political power, to be able to dictate candidates for the Supreme Court.
     Peggy Noonan knows him. Ms. Noonan has claimed that Senator Clinton is trying to position herself to the ideological right of this man, and, though I'm not sure what his belief's are, that may not be a good thing for the leftists. What if Mr. Bush is a moderate?
     Jed Babbin knows him. Writing in the American Spectator, Mr. Babbin has offered that Kofi Annan might consider Mr. Bush "a despotic aggressor." If that is so, perhaps Mr. Bush is not a great man after all. Then again, this is Kofi Annan we're discussing.
     David Sanger knows him. In a New York Times story about the 2004 election, Mr. Sanger found the attack upon Mr. Bush by a Mr. Kerry highly unsual. That attack must have been a local story, for, as I follow the news closely, I didn't see anything about Mr. Kerry attacking Mr. Bush in the national news.
     Just who is this incredibly mysterious Mr. Bush? Power, influence, prestige, all these things men aspire to, but anonymity? While I have heard the forty-third President of our United States called many things by the hate-filled liberal left, I didn't expect this. Begala, Wolfson, and Sanger are not exactly hate-filled liberal leftists, but they are members of the left-leaning old media crowd, which means they should know better, but can be excused. But Mr. Barnes? Ms. Noonan? Mr. Babbin? Please. Having fallen into the old media trap of familiarizing a sitting president, and thereby demeaning him in his position, by referring to him as Mister, they owe us an apology, for these and other conservatives have added to the environment of political disrespect.