The Naked President
Published April 14, 2004
The reason he needs the war to boil over a bit and kill a few thousand or so is because the darn election is coming up and he's got to deflect attention away from the findings of the 9/11 commission and the thousand ways his administration blundered in ways so outrageously arrogant and misguided that there's no other word but "ruthless," a word so often applied to these people it's getting flaccid.
Bush has accomplished a great deal in his term, fulfilling almost half of his campaign promises. His domestic agenda was accomplished with one hand tied behind his back. It's easier to undo things than to do them. Hence the steep decline of the environment, sharp rise in corporate crime, price fixing, secret lobbying relationships, untaxed off-shore banking. This is truly unAmerican stuff, deeply sinister. The fact that some of the people are Bush's friends makes the Whitewater scandal look like some backwoods real estate deal.
Somehow, like pulling a shoelace, Bush undid the local public school system in towns like yours and mine all across the America, managing to hurt hardest the kids who need the most help. At least he didn't bomb them.
He bought a Republican Congress with a tax cut, a congress that gleefully signed into law his "windfall profits" tax cut for the rich which does little for the middle class and working poor except raise their state and local taxes.
The next time you swerve to avoid a pothole, think about George shifting the down. Things kind of come down to... you now, don't they? His ideas of less government tend to create the exact opposite effect of whatever he names the program. Hence the Clean Air Act. The only honest word, of the three, is "Act." Yet Bush knows exactly what he's doing, rather undoing. And he needs our vote because he could undo so much more with four more years.
Therefore, Iraq. The ever-expanding already-accomplished mission. Let's talk mission. We went to find the bombs. First we softened 'em up, killed maybe 50,000 people. Small price. True, it would have been better if we'd had better facts before we killed so many people, but it made Rumsfeld happy and it was getting late. And also, the lives of Iraqis don't matter. Sorry to be cold, but that's how it is in war. We have to remember: they're terrorists.
- The Naked President
- Published: April 14, 2004
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- Writer: CW Fisher
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Funny. I saw the same moron with the same tourette twtich I have been seeing for almost 4 years now. Unfortunatly at an alarmingly increasing rate since last year. Worse still, I could have given that press conference. He must have one speech for all his conferences. Nothing new.
CW, perhaps you were drinking? Because what you have written, especially the part RJ has responded to, could only have been deduced from that conference, if one's ability to comprehend was slightly impaired by some form of merriment.
re. "Dave.." "Ed.." "Mark..."
President Deer-in-the-Headlights learned that trick back in his prep school days; each student had a semester in "Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence Press Conferences."
I swear ta gawd, love him or hate him, Bush's press conference was the most painful performance I've seen on TV in recent years.
I had to avert my eyes and hit the mute button on numerous occasions to get through it.
Ya get the feeling Bush could see the sun rise and insist that it's coming from the west.
With a straight face.
Because he believes it.
With Conviction.
God help this nation.
RJ:"...are you comparing our politically moderate President with Adolph Hiter..?"
Hitler?! Bush should be so lucky.
It's more like that guy on Sat. Night Live years ago, John Lovitz's pathological liar:
"Yeah, yeah, there were... um... weapons of mass destruction.... yeah... um, uh.. yeah, Iraq was a threat, yeah, that's it...a threat..."
"Yeah... we'er gonna have over sovereignty on June 30... yeah...democracy... yeah... remake the Middle East.. in... um.. our image... yeah... just like America... yeah, that's the ticket..."
"Yeah, they're, uh... uh... terrorists... yeah, we're fighting... um... terrorists... yeah..sure..."
I think saw CW saw the same show I did and he describes it well - but we differ greatly on its meaning and interpretation. Isn't everyone used to Bush bumbling and stumbling through his extemporaneous speaking by now? Nothing new or particularly painful there - the guy has a disconnect between his brain and his mouth if he doesn't know what he's going to say.
"the guy has a disconnect between his brain and his mouth""
Personally, I'm bothered by the disconnect between his brain and the real world.
"the guy has a disconnect between his brain and his mouth""
"Personally, I'm bothered by the disconnect between his brain and the real world."
~Bada-bing!
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"I saw something in George Bush tonight I hadn't noticed before. He radiates. He's a handsome man with great hair, his clothes are good, he's confident. He's an excellent speech reader with an underplayed style that's truly unique and extremely effective at scaring the crap out of people. But what got me tonight was when he was off the notes, connecting with "Dave," and "Ed," and "Mark." He was unimpeachably sincere. And in his eyes I saw conviction.
"A look I've seen before somewhere."
Gee, are you comparing our politically moderate President with Adolph Hiter, by chance?