Wednesday, July 18, 2007
It's me or Him
Still amazed at this Bush quote in yesterday's column from punch-me-face-prep David Brooks:
When you're defending the indefensible, it's always best to speak in abstractions.
But the most amazing part -- well, it isn't really amazing anymore, since it's the same sort of despicable thing they've been doing since day one of his "presidency", but it still gets our heads shaking every time they do it -- is what follows:
This is the defense offered of his extremist and disastrous foreign policies in general, and the war in Iraq in specific, by the president of the United States and his army of poop-throwing monkeys in the press: if you don't agree with me, you're rejecting God's gift of freedom.
This much we know: if there's an Almighty -- and we don't know any better than George W. Bush if there is -- then it stands to reason that somewhere the departed souls of the dead still exist, just like people have always imagined they do. Maybe even flying around the clouds with wings and harps -- who knows?
If they do exist, and if among them are the Founding Fathers of this country, and if the Almighty allows them to hear the current president of the Unites States defending his policies by aligning himself with, and loyal Americans who disagree with him against, "the Almighty's gift of freedom," then by all the powers of creation may the Fathers come back and give that tin-horned dissembling twit disgracing their office and this country the thrashing he deserves.
Not even his Daddy could get him out of that one. Either Daddy.
- Bush is convinced that history is moving in the direction of democracy, or as he said Friday: "It's more of a theological perspective. I do believe there is an Almighty, and I believe a gift of that Almighty to all is freedom. And I will tell you that is a principle that no one can convince me that doesn't exist."
When you're defending the indefensible, it's always best to speak in abstractions.
But the most amazing part -- well, it isn't really amazing anymore, since it's the same sort of despicable thing they've been doing since day one of his "presidency", but it still gets our heads shaking every time they do it -- is what follows:
- "I will tell you that is a principle that no one can convince me that doesn't exist."
This is the defense offered of his extremist and disastrous foreign policies in general, and the war in Iraq in specific, by the president of the United States and his army of poop-throwing monkeys in the press: if you don't agree with me, you're rejecting God's gift of freedom.
This much we know: if there's an Almighty -- and we don't know any better than George W. Bush if there is -- then it stands to reason that somewhere the departed souls of the dead still exist, just like people have always imagined they do. Maybe even flying around the clouds with wings and harps -- who knows?
If they do exist, and if among them are the Founding Fathers of this country, and if the Almighty allows them to hear the current president of the Unites States defending his policies by aligning himself with, and loyal Americans who disagree with him against, "the Almighty's gift of freedom," then by all the powers of creation may the Fathers come back and give that tin-horned dissembling twit disgracing their office and this country the thrashing he deserves.
Not even his Daddy could get him out of that one. Either Daddy.
