In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence Wilkerson, the former top aide to Colin Powell, compares the most hated person in the world, George W. Bush, to the most annoying one, Sarah Palin.

The parallel between these two individuals, while somewhat tenuous, is wholly ingenious—and damned fitting at times.

Let’s look at the facts: Bush was an inexperienced nitwit who had a meteoric rise to power; Palin was the same but was stopped short of the vice presidency by the Obama Love train. They both wrestle with the English language, oftentimes tripping over their words or making gross non sequiturs during interviews. They’re both from states that are an embarrassment to the union.

That all said, we turn to Lawrence for the ‘official’ analysis:

We had this confluence of characters--and I use that term very carefully--that included people like Powell, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and so forth, which allowed one perception to be "the dream team." It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like president--because, let's face it, that's what he was--was going to be protected by this national- security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire. What in effect happened was that a very astute, probably the most astute, bureaucratic entrepreneur I've ever run into in my life became the vice president of the United States.

Ah, so Dick Cheney does run the country? Not a surprise, but still frightening.

Perhaps the most hilarious aspect of this parallel, however, is that many believe it is more an insult to Palin than Bush.

Political commentator Matthew Yglesias writes:

I'm going to say "more insulting to Palin." Palin's something of a laughingstock, but Bush is a villain. I mean, he wrecked the world economy, he led to millions of Iraqis being forced to flee their homes, he's a total disaster and a disgrace. Palin gave bad answers in TV interviews. There's no real comparison.

So. Damn. True.