President Bush is a good man with a kind heart.
Yes, you read the title correctly. I furmly believe this to be true. Which is, obviously, why he must be stopped.
So, having seen both the President's press conference Thursday and the First Lady's comic turn at the press dinner last night I've come to a conclusion. I do not hate the Bushes, but I fear them. And thing of it is, that's because I think that they are genuinely nice people. The problem, of course, with genuinely nice people, is that they are the purest force for destruction on this little blue planet of ours. As we whizz about the sun at breakneck speed, they plot and plan to make our lives better and like meddling aunts there intentions are pure while their path of destruction is red with fresh meat and the general produce of slaughter. Hurry, go read a Graham Greene book and you'll see what I mean. His pages are littered with the corpese of men who wanted only to do something true and good, and their victims. But I want a serious son-of-a-bitch in the Oval Office, not an evil bastard like Nixon, but someone who can get things done at the expense of ideology, not get ideological at the expense of accomplishment. Because some serious stuff needs a doin' these days.
The President's pronouncements on Social Security are BS, but the thing is, watching him, I think he buys it. And not in a self-deluded cult leader drinks his own kool-aid kind of way. But I think that he believes that he's honestly helping the poor and middle-class, not slashing their benefits and destroying their financial security in old age. It's Cheney and Rumsfeld and their ilk that know that they're feeding us poison, but don't care because they want our inheretance. Bush thinks it's an elixir of life.
And while he fumbles along, content--as he appears to have been his entire life--not to ask too many questions about the world, thousands die because the President really stil believes that Saddam had weapons. His advisers had him switch rthetoric and play down the weapons justification, but it's like he's in on the big-boy thinking so he likes it. "George," they said, "Of course Saddam had weapons, but the damned media just won't believe us despite our truth telling hearts so we're going to switch rhetoric as say it was about spreading freedom all along, but you understand that we have to do this, so we can help more people." The President is not some cynical manipulator, he really thinks he's doing the best that any President has ever done, but his endearing, puppy-esque desire to do please and do well is dangerous in the mot powerful man on the planet...out fragile little blue planet.
Likewise with the First Lady, Laura Bush. She seems to be an honestly good hearted and intelligent woman. And she was funny last night, really. But the subtext of the jokes was chilling, George appears to be a distant, self-absorbed (no absorbed with the duties of the office), rat of a husband. And he is apparantly not really much of a cowboy, kind of an ignoramous, and favors simplistic and destructive courses of action which is why he gets along with Rumsfeld and Cheney. Ha, ha, ha, stop, your killing me!
No seriously, please stop, you are killing me.
UPDATE: It seems that some are confused. Sadly, much like the Bush administration itself, my contentious commenter doesn't seem to appreciate nuance or language skills. (Oooo...a contentious comment, it's like I'm a real blogger. Heeeeee!) First off, the kind heart thing was supposed to be just a bit snarky, I honestly don't believe that anyone really has a "kind heart" like that, at least nobody in politics--also, I snarked immediately after the opening contention. Second. Dude, he's so much worse that a cynical manipulator, he's a goddamn true believer and that sucks because those people are nuts. I didn't fall for anything...of course Laura's bit was a ploy to distract from the Tom DeLay/Iraqi insurgency nightmare that Bush has brought down upon our heads. I thought my overall very low opinion of the performance was communicated nicely when I implied her complicity in murder in the very last line. And I think that everyone knows that these two are real asshats, but they just aren't crazy-ass Dr. Mengele style evil. They just aren't...but Rummy, that man's soul is blacker than the inky deeps of the great wide waters themselves.
So, having seen both the President's press conference Thursday and the First Lady's comic turn at the press dinner last night I've come to a conclusion. I do not hate the Bushes, but I fear them. And thing of it is, that's because I think that they are genuinely nice people. The problem, of course, with genuinely nice people, is that they are the purest force for destruction on this little blue planet of ours. As we whizz about the sun at breakneck speed, they plot and plan to make our lives better and like meddling aunts there intentions are pure while their path of destruction is red with fresh meat and the general produce of slaughter. Hurry, go read a Graham Greene book and you'll see what I mean. His pages are littered with the corpese of men who wanted only to do something true and good, and their victims. But I want a serious son-of-a-bitch in the Oval Office, not an evil bastard like Nixon, but someone who can get things done at the expense of ideology, not get ideological at the expense of accomplishment. Because some serious stuff needs a doin' these days.
The President's pronouncements on Social Security are BS, but the thing is, watching him, I think he buys it. And not in a self-deluded cult leader drinks his own kool-aid kind of way. But I think that he believes that he's honestly helping the poor and middle-class, not slashing their benefits and destroying their financial security in old age. It's Cheney and Rumsfeld and their ilk that know that they're feeding us poison, but don't care because they want our inheretance. Bush thinks it's an elixir of life.
And while he fumbles along, content--as he appears to have been his entire life--not to ask too many questions about the world, thousands die because the President really stil believes that Saddam had weapons. His advisers had him switch rthetoric and play down the weapons justification, but it's like he's in on the big-boy thinking so he likes it. "George," they said, "Of course Saddam had weapons, but the damned media just won't believe us despite our truth telling hearts so we're going to switch rhetoric as say it was about spreading freedom all along, but you understand that we have to do this, so we can help more people." The President is not some cynical manipulator, he really thinks he's doing the best that any President has ever done, but his endearing, puppy-esque desire to do please and do well is dangerous in the mot powerful man on the planet...out fragile little blue planet.
Likewise with the First Lady, Laura Bush. She seems to be an honestly good hearted and intelligent woman. And she was funny last night, really. But the subtext of the jokes was chilling, George appears to be a distant, self-absorbed (no absorbed with the duties of the office), rat of a husband. And he is apparantly not really much of a cowboy, kind of an ignoramous, and favors simplistic and destructive courses of action which is why he gets along with Rumsfeld and Cheney. Ha, ha, ha, stop, your killing me!
No seriously, please stop, you are killing me.
UPDATE: It seems that some are confused. Sadly, much like the Bush administration itself, my contentious commenter doesn't seem to appreciate nuance or language skills. (Oooo...a contentious comment, it's like I'm a real blogger. Heeeeee!) First off, the kind heart thing was supposed to be just a bit snarky, I honestly don't believe that anyone really has a "kind heart" like that, at least nobody in politics--also, I snarked immediately after the opening contention. Second. Dude, he's so much worse that a cynical manipulator, he's a goddamn true believer and that sucks because those people are nuts. I didn't fall for anything...of course Laura's bit was a ploy to distract from the Tom DeLay/Iraqi insurgency nightmare that Bush has brought down upon our heads. I thought my overall very low opinion of the performance was communicated nicely when I implied her complicity in murder in the very last line. And I think that everyone knows that these two are real asshats, but they just aren't crazy-ass Dr. Mengele style evil. They just aren't...but Rummy, that man's soul is blacker than the inky deeps of the great wide waters themselves.
posted by justin | 7:01 PM
1 Comments:
That all sounds like a bunch of bull shit to me. I think that you swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. This guy went to the best schools in the country, something you claim to be intimately familiar with. You of all people should know he is no dummy, and he certainly is not simply being misled by the evil henchmen (Cheney and Rumsfeld) at his side. Last night was a calculated attempt to get the cynics out there to drop their guard. It may have been funny, but in no way does that lead to the conclusion that W is a good guy. You want to know about his character? Talk to the kids that were in his fraternity. I hear some of them don't think he is such a great guy. Don’t be naïve, because the President certainly is not. If you were Irish you would get it.
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