Lessons from George W Bush

The impressive thing about George W Bush, you may say the only impressive thing, is that he lowered expectations so much that anything better than catastrophe was celebrated as success. Ayako and I were very much from the Managed Expectations school during pregnancy. Unrealistically high expectations could only lead to disappointment, or so we thought. Little did we know of the powers of babies to woo their parents into labouring on their behalf. Great expectations, it turns out, would not have led to disappointment at all.