Nigh unto brilliance.
I wish to take this opportunity to remind you all of one of the defining quotes of our time:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
How ironic it is that a mere cat can recognize the wisdom of these words when a vast majority of the supposedly more developed populace-at-large cannot. You will all come around, soon enough.