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When Gov. Bush, a self described "media-creation", ran for president he was an arrogant, inexperienced, drug-using fratboy. Despite a BS from Yale and an MBA from Harvard, this man was probably the dumbest, least experienced, most unworthy man in history to run for president.
His platform was a two-pronged attack: Step one involved turning his failures (and there were many to choose from) into non-issues and even successes. Step two involved lying about his opposition.
He got the nickname "Smirk" because he sat around with that dumbass, self-satisfied grin on his face. During the debates he arrogantly blasted Clinton/Gore for their military efforts. This man, with little experience being sober, let alone in public office, had the audacity to attack Clinton's positions without offering his own solutions.
All he did was smirk and stumble through carefully rehearsed soundbytes. Occasionaly he would so horrificly butcher a sentence that it would somehow end up viewed as "homespun, down to earth, blah blah" when in reality it was just the inane drivel of a functionally illiterate moron trying desperately to give his speech in spite of his massive hangover.
Once he finished speaking, the applause would invariably come. And with the applause, the idiot son was visibly rejuvinated. The man would feed off of the applause as though he were some sort of vampire. Then, when his spirits were sufficiently lifted we would see the look of frustrated confusion become replaced with an arrogant, condecending smirk.
The only comfort I could take in this was the fact that I knew his smirk was empty. He would stand there grinning like an idiot, but no one would know why. Not even him. And so the nickname "Smirk" was given to him, for his preffered facial expression at the end of speeches. Of course, most people knew this was a meaningless facade. In fact, that was the most infuriating part.
Now, however, things have changed. In two and a half years Bush has trampled over Democracy to bully his way into the White House. He has named to his cabinent the most conservative, facist, hawkish, sadistic assholes since 1938 Germany. He has led an assault on American values and 98% of the country by his economic practices. He has passed tax cut after tax cut for the wealthy, and stands poised to completely rewrite tax laws. He has had his Pearl Harbor, and somehow managed to turn world sympathy into hatred. He has supported the horrificly Orwellian Patriot Act, which threatens our very civil liberties. And he has used Christianity as both a shield and as a sword with which he attacks "non-believers".
There was a time when people knew that Bush's smirk was one of arrognace, displayed by someone who didn't really understand what was going on.
But times have changed.
Bush now wears a new smirk. This time, it is one of triumph. Unquestioned power. He proudly displays his smirk, for it is one that seems to shout, "Hey, fuck you, America!" He now stands after speeches grinning like an idiot, as always. But his attitude has changed. You can see it in his eyes. The pure bliss and joy in his eyes and on his face does not come from the applause. It comes because he is getting away with everything, and is wondering what he can get away with next.
When reporters question him on issues such as lying about nuclear weapons, we see the new smirk. It is the smirk of a man who is doing whatever he wants and doesn't care if he gets caught.
We, as a nation, may have caught him with his hand in the cookie jar; yet still he smirks. Is this because he is too stupid to understand?
Not anymore.
He smirks because we don't know that he stole the family car, totalled it, and then spent the savings account at the track.
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