He came to save us from terrorism, this rich boy who donned his flyboy costume to declare "mission accomplished."
But then something happened. Iraq turned into a Gotham gone crazy, and no amount of Batmobiles can subdue the criminal gangs there.
Meanwhile, the Bruce Wayne Bush keeps batting his eyes at us about Social Security. But we're not buying it. If he sort of worked in his costume, he doesn't work as a character without a mask. Nobody cares about Bush's fantasies when they're Bruce Wayney. We want Batman.
And that ain't working anymore. More and more, Batman looks like Chimpman. According to the New York Times: "Increasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, according to the NY Times/CBS News Poll. 42% said they approved of the way Mr. Bush was handling his job, a marked decline from his 51% rating after the election. Despite months of presidential effort, two-thirds said they were uneasy about Mr. Bush's ability to make sound decisions on Social Security. 33% said they thought the country was on the right track, while 61% said it had gone off in the wrong direction."
Bruce Wayne Bush ain't cutting it, and Batman Bush is dead. If he's wearing anything today, it's his old Performing Monkey outfit. In fact, he's already being measured for his next costume: Lame Duck.
It's time for Wonder Woman Hillary.
Article comments
1 - SFC SKI
Thanks for putting it all in the title, it allows me to skip the rest of your drivel.
2 - adam
Happy to be of service, Drivelman.
3 - Mark Schannon
Ski, there you go again. (Sound familiars?) "Drivel" is not a rebuttal. You got better statistics about how well the Bush Bubble Machine is doing?
I can understand your shuddering at the thought of Hillary "I ain't no stinkin' liberal" Clinton in the White House, but I think Adam's post--save the few shots which we're all allowed to take--is fact based. After all statistics never lie. ;-))
4 - Dave Nalle
A poll is not a statistic, it's a sampling of the opinion of a small number of people extrapolated to represent the opinion of a larger number of people. No hard facts there at all, just opinions quantified.
Dave
5 - SFC SKI
I stand by the use of drivel to describe the tone of what is written above. If he wants to don the mantel of Drivelman, that's his choice.
By reading the description under the title of the mainpage, I really don't think that what will follow will be all that enlightening, but it will be biased and irrational, but it's OK, because it's all in good fun joking, isn't it?
I won't argue statistics or polls, it's pointless.
As for Hilary, if she is not Bill Part 2 and can prove that she brings something new to the table other than the typical party line crap, I'll consider her bid for election along with every other candidate.
6 - adam
SFC SKI,
You be Drivelman, not me. You're the one who wields the scythe "drivel" with such a fine aim, such canny word skill, such brilliantly marshalled arguments. We salute you and your mighty hauteur, Drivelman.
7 - SFC SKI
Well, scythes are pretty impressive, if unwieldy in close quarters, but I think Hauteur would be a cooler name than Drivelman. Many people would have to look it up, or misspell it, would only give me something more to berate them about.
8 - adam
Hauteurman? I don't know. I prefer Drivelman. BTW, Batman Begins was terrific.
9 - adam
BTW, the post wanted to make one thing clear: that Bush is screwing up, he's run out of ideas, he's like a buck caught in the headlights of Iraq, he doesn't know where to turn -- so he just keeps saying over and over, "Freedom is on the march," like some stupid windup doll. Where are the neocons/theocrats who used to write the script for this dummy? They've run out ideas, too. We now have a windbag administration, drowning in flagrant incompetence, choking on irrelevance, with not even enough breath left to be their usual blowhard selves.
10 - Patriot
George Bush could have been a great president -- but it is unlikely that possibility remains…
If only he had listened to his old man and the old man’s advisors (like Scowcroft) -- instead of the neocons,,, he could have made bin Laden the primary foreign policy issue instead of Saddam and Iraq…
In that case he probably could have gotten bin Laden…
With that -- and a little sanity on domestic issues -- he could be at 70% in the polls…
Oh well -- move over Lyndon Johnson…
11 - JR
Bush was wholly owned by big business and religious nuts, how could he ever have shown any sanity on domestic issues?
12 - dietdoc
Mark Shannon writes: "After all statistics never lie."
Reply: That is a rather sweeping generalization that does not necessarily hold true across the board. As one example, ask the CDC how many people die from excessive body fat. That is only one example of how statistics can be misleading. To quote one wise man:
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
(Attributed to "Autobiography of Mark Twain")
Cheers,
Ron
13 - dietdoc
[Sorry Mark, I misspelled your last name]
14 - Zack
I once was in a meeting and the president of the company wanted to introduce a new product and did not know the size of the market. He turned to the person in charge of "Market Research" and said -- "Paul -- do a study and tell me how big this market is", to which Paul replied -- "You tell me what you want to know, and I will get it for you".
And he did.