Gee Dubya announced today he has a plan for victory that will ensure the Crawford Pirates will win their Division II state quarterfinal game against Celina on Friday. Bush vowed to bring in the Delta Force if necessary.
I remember having a very pleasant interview with the man who would become the 43rd president of the United States. GW was campaigning for his daddy’s losing race against Bill Clinton. Dubya looked me in the eye, gave me a pleasant grin and shook my hand before telling me how the elementary school class his twin daughters were in had a straw vote and elected George H.W. as president. Cute story. Just me and George. No Karen Hughes up his butt like later when he was governor. None of the snarkiness that overcame him as governor. None of the arrogance nor the idiocy he sometimes displays these days when he opens his mouth. Either Dubya was a fraud then or somebody hijacked Dubya’s soul. Maybe a little of both.
His speech today at the Naval Academy just appears to be more of the Iraq war snake oil he and his merry band of misfits have been peddling since long before the “shock and awe” days. Stay the course. Let’s go out in a blaze of glory. Damn.
It would have been nice to recount my days as a newspaper reporter (I am now a freelance writer and write for no one in particular for those of you cruising by) of having covered GW as citizen, governor and president were George W. a great man and great citizen, governor and president. I don’t know how he is as a citizen. He wasn’t a bad governor. But God almighty, I didn’t think I’d ever see anyone who sucked as president worse than Richard Nixon. Until now.
What is really bad/sad/smell like shad/ is that I can think of no one in the official chain I would want to replace him. Cheney? He’s worse than Bush, Nixon and Clinton combined. Hastert? I’d rather my neighborhood crazy lady — who said this morning on my daily walk that she’d throw a brick at me — be president. Frist? DeLay? I’d prefer my two paroled child molester neighbors over those two crooks as president. (Hey, my neighborhood is really pretty good all-in-all, with a few exceptions.)
I really wish I could be like Rip Van Winkle and go to sleep and when I wake up, Bush and all the rest of the vermin would be gone from office. But I’m afraid that if I went to sleep for too long I would wake up and nothing would be left standing. Nothing worthwhile at least. Man oh man George W. you let me down. Not as president because by that time I knew you weren’t worth a whole hell of a lot. But as a human being. If I’m cynical, and I am, you helped sealed the deal Lucille. You seemed like a stand-up guy back in ’92. And now you’re just another weasel politician. What a waste dude.