OY....
"He is a product of his upbringing and culture and for that we should feel more pity than anger, towards him."
I will use that sentiment to temper my attitude towards you, I suppose. Ed has said a lot of excruciating things to me it is true, but at least he never displayed condescension to the degree of patiently explaining the meaning of "sycophant" to me.
You, sir, are a monotonous, splenetic tsunami of bilge-water.
Incidentally, it takes a little more than typing "Bush" in every one of your dreary posts to demonstrate the world-weary political sophistication to which you aspire.