A great Letter to the Editor in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday:

"TOO PRAISEFUL OF PRESIDENT, Editor -- Regarding Chris Matthews' column of Dec. 30: George W. Bush is "a man for all seasons"? Puh-leeeeze! This is a case of a thoroughly mediocre man of limited intellect who happened to be in the catbird seat when a catastrophe occurred requiring that he rise to meet it. If we had never been subjected to this terror, he would have gone bumbling along and we would have continued to think of him as a one-term fluke. This is the case of a man who had greatness thrust upon him."--CHERYL DAVIS, Palo Alto