My job is to,
like, think beyond
the immediate.
George W. Bush
April 21, 2004...
Bush is a Jock or at least he's an athletic supporter.
The latest in a long series of stupid articles trying to show what a great guy Bush is, a thinking man, an athletic man, a man who can pretend to give a damn about almost anything, a man who can pretend to apologize to the King of Jordan for abuse of prisoners in Iraq and not actually even apologize, a man who can stage a contrived media event ona whim, a man who can try to convince the nation that the war in Iraq is going well, a man who makes Dan Quayle look good, a man who lies so often he has to have his teeth stained white three times a week to keep the brown off.
[Update: Bush may or may not be an adult jock but he was a boyhood cheerleader.
Though it actually looks like a huge drinking glass as well, could he have been a drunken boyhood cheerleader?]
Posted to MetaFilter just for the pure joy of watching it get shredded like the tripe crap it is.
[Second Update: In response to a long and unrelated comment on the MeFi thread linked to above, I wrote this and wanted to share it here because damned if I don't think its pretty well written:
My motto is and has been, Anybody But Bush. That means that I would even vote for Chinless Joe Lieberman. I don't think I'd ever make it to Sharpton but at least he'd be genuinely funny. Bush is funny because he's such an idiot.
People don't laugh with Bush, they laugh at him.
John Kerry? You want some waxed poetry about him?
Okay. Everytime I've actually heard him speak on tv, he answers questions clearly and completely and, seemingly, honestly.
Everytime Bush answers questions, he looks like a kid in the principal's office, squirmy and not happy to be there at all.
In a time of war, John Kerry went to war and served his country enough to be decorated.
In that same time of war, George Bush used his connections to land a cush National Guard gig that was too tough for him to finish.
Where Bush is a demonstrated failure, John Kerry is a demonstrable success.
Did I know much about Kerry before he became a candidate? No. Why should I? Presidential politics are awful enough, why would I bother giving a damn about Senators, Congressman, Mayors, Sheriffs and Prefects?
Did I know much about Bush before this re-election? Hell yes, I've been watching him repeatedly lie, swindle, back room deal, nod, nod, wink, wink and lots and lots of smirking and posturing in between falling off a Segway, reading books upside down and looking through binoculars with the caps still on.
Bush is an unmitigated buffoon.
I think, given the option, I'll take an unknown possibility of a real leader over a known fool.
PS Unless you're unsure, the National Review is a GOP publication dedicated to GOP agendas. It was trying (ohhhh so hard) to spin this into a pro-Bush piece. The fact that it came from an anti-Bush site is irrelevant, the source is the GOP's own propoganda machine.
And that is the delicious irony.]
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