'Assassination Vacation,' by Sarah Vowell - The New York Times - Book Review - New York Times

'Assassination Vacation,' by Sarah Vowell - The New York Times - Book Review - New York Times: "Vowell attributes what she calls ''this whole morbid assassination death trip'' to, in part, her anger at the current president and his policies, particularly the war in Iraq -- to which she draws a parallel with McKinley's elective attack on Spain. (This isn't just a lefty reflex: Karl Rove is also said to be fond of McKinley-Bush parallels.) Her ''simmering rage'' at the president alarms her:
''If I can summon this much bitterness toward a presidential human being, I can sort of, kind of see how this amount of bile or more, teaming up with disappointment, unemployment, delusions of grandeur and mental illness, could prompt a crazier narcissistic creep to buy one of this country's widely available handguns. Not that I, I repeat, condone that. Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.'' "