In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
pResident Whistle Ass
Sure writing the above might be considered insulting to the office of the President of The United States of America. And it is, but it is a way of quickly summarizing an even larger insult to the office of the President of The United States of America, and that is that George W. Bush presently holds that title.
And besides, who but a Whistle Ass says things like this in his United Nations speech:
Events during the past two years have set before us the clearest of divides: between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change, and those who adopt the methods of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man, and those who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children without mercy or shame.
Between these alternatives there is no neutral ground.
Wow, let us hope he was just whistling through his ass, because there are so many ways to pick apart just that sentence.
First, it again seems to show Bush’s complete inability to recognize shades of grey. Why is it important to see that evil, like many things is a continuum, there are levels of evil, if you don’t have the ability to think that then by reading Bush’s own words “between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change, and those who adopt the methods of gangsters,” you are left with no choice but to lump Bush with Saddam and Osama. Because quite frankly was invading Iraq working for “peaceful change?” Is the present state of Iraq leaning more towards chaos or order? And as much as I dislike Bush he is not as bad as Saddam or Osama, not even close. I still think Bush is bad, of course, but see bad is a continuum, an infinite scale, and there is much distance between Bush and those guys.
But look at that statement again: “between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos.” Hmm… that’s problematic too. You see, Order and Chaos are also a scale, and well, quite frankly Saddam was much more close to the Order side then we are, and that is a good thing for us. You see, Democracy and Freedom are quite a bit chaotic, and dictatorships generally tend to be quite orderly. Quite frankly, though it is a good thing Saddam is gone, and even though the present skyrocketing crime levels in Iraq are (hopefully) temporary, the crime rate will probably never be as low as it was in Saddam’s time. It is a little easier for a dictatorship to maintain order (what with doing away with those pesky juries and due process and search warrants and what not) then it is for a free country. Let us be really concerned when Bush starts talking about getting the trains running on time. Actually he’ll never say that, trains represent mass transit, and mass transit is bad for oil companies. Actually what is most wrong with this statment is that Bush is talking about Osama again, who hated Saddam almost as much as Bush. It is all so confusing.
But Bush’s statements aren’t always so confusing. Earlier this week he gave a speech to the ruling party's official media outlet: Fox News.
BUSH: I've hurt my knee, and...
HUME: How bad is it?
BUSH: It's bad enough that I cannot run.
HUME: What is it? Is it...
BUSH: It may have been a little meniscus. I might have torn it a little bit. I pulled my calf, then I hurt the meniscus, and I am hoping to find a lot of sympathy around here, but I haven't found any yet.
HUME: Looks like you hit the wrong town.
BUSH: Wrong place, exactly. Maybe I ought to go up to Capitol Hill...
HUME: Oh, yeah, that's a hotbed up there. What are you doing for exercise?
BUSH: Exercise. Elliptical (ph). Jim Ryan (ph), here at the White House during a t-ball game, I believe it was, suggested that I go to the swimming pool back over there and run in the pool, put a little floaty on and run.
See that wasn’t confusing, and such an incredibly revealing statement too.
Actually the interview did contain something revealing. Revealing and very very frightening.
BUSH: Yes. You know, look, I have great respect for the media. I mean, our society is a good, solid democracy because of a good, solid media. But I also understand that a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news. And I...
HUME: I won't disagree with that, sir.
BUSH: I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
Now you know why Bush says things are going well in Iraq. Now you know why Bush says the tax cuts are working. Now you know why he seems to be completely out of touch with the world. It seems that way because he is.
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