Saturday, March 08, 2008
Bush Americanus
Do not play this man cheaply. Ever. Or you lose.0 comments
Shrub continues to rend the moral fiber of The United States of America, because it fits with his world view. Period.
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Ever since his first run in 2000, he has done exactly what he has said he was going to do. In keeping with his being a spoiled rich-boy, black sheep, his arrogance has always been his strongest and most reliable trait.
If you ever get the chance to catch a showing of his 2000 GOP convention acceptance speech, do so. It's truly chilling to see.
Everything he's done to this country—and to you—in the past seven years, he outlined clearly in that speech. He said he was going to do it, then he did it. Voila! There have been no surprises. His approach has always been: "I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do. Try to stop me, hotshot." We didn't believe him; we thought he was a dope/loser. So, in turn, we lose. Badly.
We laughed at his being a goofball at our peril. He had us exactly where he wanted us. He has spent his entire two terms hiding in plain sight. So much so, a Dem majority is fully at a loss to how to go about stopping him. He adheres to no law; he has no scruples and no ethics. He is—in totality—amoral.
When you complain, he just chooses to not hear you. You will never influence him by your words. If he doesn't like it, he simply won't hear it. If he hears something he doesn't like, he simply declares a Terror Alert to scare you into shutting up.
Nothing personal; just business. That's just the way it is.
So when he said the following, how utterly foolish were we to laugh ourselves senseless?"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier; just so long as I'm the dictator." —Washington D.C. December 18, 2000
This should, of course, be taken literally.
He was chuckling when he said it. But he was the only one who wasn't laughing.
As with everything else he's done, he depends on our incredulity.
posted by Gotham 3:07 PM
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