Friday, January 12, 2007

The many presidents of George W. Bush.


God, now the guy is Eve White, Eve Black and Sybil, and it's all Oedipal in origin.

Whatever the diagnosis, we need him to be gone, along with all of his twisted brothers and sisters of the 'Cult of Neo-Conservatism.'

The many presidents of George W. Bush. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine:

If you had asked any other President in American history during a time of war whether they had a credibility problem because they had not foreseen changes on the battlefield, you probably would have had plenty of cause. I mean, Abraham Lincoln constantly guessed from Manassas straight through until the final months of the war.
—White House press spokesman Tony Snow, Jan. 9, 2007 (a lying charmer who ought to be horse-whipped)

So now it's Abraham Lincoln. Seems like only yesterday that President Bush was the reincarnation of Harry S. Truman, the patron saint of low approval ratings. Last month Sen. Richard Durban, R.-Ill., told reporters that at a meeting with congressional leaders, Bush compared his trials in Iraq to Truman's at the dawn of the Cold War.

Bush even gave Truman biographer David McCullough a Presidential Medal of Freedom. But that was last month. Maybe somebody in the White House read Slate's Fred Kaplan, writing in his Jan. 3 column ('Iron Man') that presidents who compare themselves to Truman were like 'failing artists who take solace from the fact that van Gogh didn't sell many paintings in his lifetime. … Maybe they're just lousy artists.' Or maybe Bush's handlers figured that if you're going to be an unpopular previous president, why not be the best? (Please do click over^)

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