President Bush may not have asked questions about Hurricane Katrina and doesn’t remember how the Iraqi army got disbanded, but he sure is vocal about his ice cream and mountain bike trails! You can protest that these are unfair anecdotes, but they fit with a larger pattern — Bush used to take two-hour lunches in Texas while rubber-stamping execution reviews in fifteen minutes.

Update 9/5 9:21 PM: Michael Crowley’s readers flagged this related passage from Ron Suskind’s The Price of Loyalty:

Bush looked impatiently at [Andy] Card, hard-eyed. “You’re the chief of staff. You think you’re up to getting us some cheeseburgers?”

Card nodded. No one laughed. He all but raced out of the room.