The Age of Embarrassment. Underachiever Bush.

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The Age of Embarrassment. Underachiever Bush.

from JAN 2001


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http://www.msnbc.com/news/509305.asp?0nm=N11J

http://www.bartcop.com/10embar.htm


The Age of Embarrassment

The price America pays
for putting an
underachiever in the White House


By Jill Nelson
MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR

Jan. 3 — Forget all the rhetoric during the campaign from George W. Bush about morals, virtue, honor and restoring America to her former glory. The Age of Embarrassment is upon us, and if you think you were humiliated by Bill Clinton’s shenanigans in the Oval Office, baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

THIS IS the era to cringe as you see the latest Republican retread nominated for a cabinet post. You can’t help but blush when a right-wing, racist, Republican senatorial candidate from Missouri loses the election to a dead Democratic opponent and then is rewarded by the president-elect by being nominated U.S. Attorney General. Not to mention the déjà vu all over again that struck when Donald Rumsfeld was nominated for Secretary of Defense, one mo’ time. If you can remember back that far, this is the man who began his political career with Richard Nixon and graduated to being Secretary of Defense in the Ford Administration, is a supporter of space-based defense systems — remember the joke that was Star Wars?

NO VISIONARIES HERE
Watching Bush announce his cabinet choices over the last few weeks, I suppose it’s possible for those who did not vote for him to avoid feeling sick, disgusted, or outraged. But it’s been totally impossible to avoid being embarrassed.
It’s as if we’re watching some bad national sitcom, very loosely based on Oedipus, in which the First Son tries to prove himself to his ex-commander-in-chief father. And how does he go about doing this? By surrounding himself with aging father surrogates — first and foremost Daddy’s main man, Dick Cheney, who, heading the vice-presidential search committee, ended up having himself chosen for the job.

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1. Auhnold is the same way. Expectation of him is so low

that any accomplishment, regardless of how minor it may be, will be hailed as an extraordinary feat. Aside from that, Shrub's father's surrogates failed in landing Sr. a second term because of their domestic failures. Can we be so bold as to assume history will repeat itself? My fingers are crossed.

BTW, domestic failures is an understatement in describing jr.'s domestic agenda.