Crazy President, Crazy Nation

[indigobusiness]

“…instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.” – Scripps Howard News Service report on Bush inaugural activities.

It is clear that George W. Bush is suffering from a terrible pathology, a sick paranoia. It has been pointed out by people who have known him and should have been noticed by anyone paying even a tiny bit of attention. What is less clear is that the whole nation is quickly catching up with his level of insanity.

We know the Bush story. A mediocre man was pushed along into schools, jobs and businesses that he simply wasn’t qualified to handle. Living up to the Peter Principle he rose to the level of his own incompetence and became president.

Perhaps it is time to stop criticizing Bush for his shortcomings and talk about the nation’s shortcomings too. It is fitting that he leads a nation completely unqualified to be a world leader in any way.


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[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. If you voted for him, you're an idiot!

[DELUSIONAL]

3. I take it further than that -- voting for a war criminal

makes you a war criminal. Also bush voters are crazy.

[Southsideirish]

2. I thought he was acting weird today - eyes darting about frantically -

and I definitely saw him talking to himself (unless he had a headset phone on)while walking through some Rotunda type building. I think he's lost it!

[atommom]

4. Makes me think of the book "Crazy Bosses", which discusses

how a leader's psychopathology shapes those in his workplace. The same author (Stanley Bing) wrote "What Would Machiavelli Do?" which might be even more apropos:

How did the rich and powerful individuals who move the earth get where they are today? Are they smarter? Faster? Better looking? Certainly not. Some are even short and ugly. What, then, is their edge?

The answer is simple: they're meaner. That's all. And if you want to get where they're going, you'll be meaner, too.

The good news is that once you get started, it's easy. Walking in the steps of the Florentine master, Stanley Bing will show you how to be all the Machiavelli you can be. How to beat people who are smarter than you are. How to make other people cringe and whimper when you enter a room. How to get what you want when you want it whether you deserve it or not. Without fear. Without emotion. Without finger-wagging morality. One scalp at a time.

They do it. You can too.

What Would Machiavelli Do? is more than a road map for people who want to get to the top and stay there. It's a way of life you can use at home as well as at the office. A way of seeing other people from 50,000 feet--as teeny-tiny ants you can squish. A simple, detailed plan for those with the courage to leave kindness and decency behind, to seize the future by the throat and make it cough upmoney, power and superior office space.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066620112/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-3217991-2243034?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

It would be more amusing if it weren't so true.

[Catfight]

5. Yes, if he was born under any other name, he'd be digging holes

somewhere getting paid daily to pay for his drinking habit. But that's the American dream, a loser who acts like a winner can become President. It's all about marketing the man, a cardboard cutout could be marketing to run this country if it appealed to the none-thinking masses.

[indigobusiness]

6. He is digging one...

http://sludgereport2.blogspot.com/

[Larkspur]

7. Our present times reminds of of Tolkein's Akabellah or the Fall of Numenor

which was Tolkein's version of the Atlantis story.

The Numenorans were men who lived longer than normal men. They were good and generous at first, but eventually they became greedy, corrupt, arrogant, and were destroyed by the Valar via a volcanic eruption and tsunami.

The last king/emperor of Numenor was arrogant from his beginnings and after capturing Sauron, the evil sorcerer, he made Sauron one of his counselors. Sauron, the Deceiver, stroked the king's pride and quickly rose the ranks to become top counselor of the realm.

Not only did the king fall under Sauron's spell, but so did the majority of the Numenorans. Only a few remained true to the Valar, and they were persecuted, but when Sauron seduced the king to wage war against the Valar, the leader of the Faithful sent his people to Middle Earth, while he warned the Valar prior to the wicked king's arrival. It was these Numenorans, who fled to Middle Earth, who founded Gondor and were the roots of Aragorn's heritage.

[indigobusiness]

8. People sometimes overlook the mythic import of Tolkien

and relegate it to mere fantasy.