"What the President meant to say. . ." How many times have we heard the foot extraction specialists begin to move the shells around the able with that phrase? Really, when George Dubya, the ex cheerleader with the parachute harness arranged to show off his gonads aboard the Abraham Lincoln to give his "mission accomplished" speech, he really didn't mean to say the whole mission was accomplished said Scott Sforza, former deputy assistant to President Bush for communications. Yeah right. Sure, perhaps the crew of the Abe Lincoln thought it pertained to the end of their mission, but you know it wasn't a private thank you to the crew, it was broadcast around the world via satellite and he sure as hell didn't say your mission is accomplished, even though Sforza would like to whitewash Bush's shameful and fraudulent exhibition and his own part in it.
It was, as the attack on Iraq was, an infantile attempt to portray significance; to be as he titled himself, a Warpresident, the Commander Guy, like a little boy wearing his father's old uniform and playing army.
Does anyone who has ever flown a fighter plane think Bush, who hadn't flown in years and years and had no specialized carrier training actually landed that plane as the newshorns blared and continue to blare? Ridiculous. Just ask any Navy pilot and yes, I have asked. Had Bush really meant what his apologists claim, would he have attempted to stop combat pay nearly a decade before combat ended - if indeed you can now say it has?
No, just as the assault on Clinton precisely mirrored the proceedings and charges against Nixon, the assault on Obama has it's roots in our 8 year national embarrassment and every valid criticism leveled against Bush: ignoring the constitution, creating massive debt and the largest administration in history amongst other things is being reflected onto the current administration and I think these little attempts to reconstruct a more forgivable past need to be countered and not just passed by and dismissed as the excuses of failed politicians.
Really, is there a better example of a pathetic attempt to pull something from the cesspool and pass it off as a hero -- at least since the attempted rehabilitation of Tricky Dick?
Capt. Fogg,
ReplyDeleteWhile I think we all recognize the grimly comic historical process whereby yesterdecade's fool or paranoid crook becomes today's statesman, I resolutely refuse to allow such a transformation in Mr. W. Bush's case -- a lot of what he did seems to this lizard blatantly wrong and a fair amount of it may well have been unconstitutional. I understand that he was under pressure and the times weren't normal, but he still damaged the office, perhaps permanently (though that's to be seen), and in my view he most certainly did NOT make good on his oath, which was "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." When your administration allows torture and starts wars on false premises, you're not upholding the constitution and transmitting respect for it to your successor -- you're teaching him that "war" justifies doing almost anything he wants, even if it's expressly forbidden by your own Constitution and by international law. And you're teaching the citizens generally that it's best not to make waves even when you see that what's going on is wrong. After all, what's the point? Nobody's listening.
I think quite a bit of it was unconstitutional as was the ruling that allowed him to sneak into office, but all that bold treatment of the founding document as a quaint anachronism ( something not unique to the Bush administration ) is the parent of all the idiotic temper tantrums about Obama "trashing" the constitution.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that makes me hate the human race more than any other thing ( and there are plenty of good reasons) is that it's so easy to get away with accusing your accusers of doing what you did to them.
"your honor, do you know how fast that policeman was going when he pulled me over for speeding? Outrageous!"
Oh to have been born with three toed claws
and teeth like knives.
What things we could do if we could invent
our lives
gnashing and slashing we'd lay waste the foe
with dripping fangs we'd look for mo. . .