Boston Globe Columnist: "Bush's Thinking Gets Ever Curiouser"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppay145051491jan14,0,2063853.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

Bush's thinking gets ever curiouser
January 14, 2007

Is President George W. Bush taking us down the Rabbit Hole?

The one thing he got right in his Wednesday speech he also got wrong. "Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved," he said of his projected triumph in Iraq. Indeed, to the rest of us, Bush's "victory" is likely to look very much like defeat.

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In urban terms, the execution of the Iraq war can be likened to a sheriff's acquiring a warrant to search the estate of a man he despises. After convincing the judge that the abusive father has an illicit arsenal, the sheriff stages a murderous raid, kills the man's sons, slaughters his friends and acquaintances, wrecks his property, and, because he can, lays siege to the entire county.

After a show trial, the sheriff turns the condemned man over to his fiercest enemies, who taunt him publicly as they stretch the rope around his neck.

After viewing video footage of Saddam Hussein's hanging, Bush declares the show trial "fair" and the hanging a civil expression of "justice."

Perhaps we should not expect Bush to act otherwise. This spoiled-brat scion of a pretentious ruling-class American family is cursed with a profound mule-headed swagger. Since childhood, he has displayed a numbing inability to process unexpected information. After a youth and adulthood wasted by alcoholism and alleged recovery, Bush is a born-again Christian, so-called, as stubborn as ever.

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[aquart]

1. "spoiled-brat scion of a pretentious ruling-class American family"

Calling the Bushes "pretentious" is the best thing I've read all night.

[Hissyspit]

2. I liked that part, too.

So I made sure and put it into the post, even though it came toward the end.

[malaise]

3. A superb article

My favourite lines
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Our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, provided a mechanism for saving the republic from a president and a vice president who would take the republic down the Rabbit Hole. Perhaps it is time to start that discussion.
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IMPEACH

[pacalo]

18. I loved the article & especially that last sentence. :)

[Philosoraptor]

4. EXCELLENT!

[crispini]

5. K&R

[radfringe]

6. He's too late for a very important date....

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. "After a youth and adulthood wasted by alcoholism and alleged recovery"

Excellent article.

Calling him on his alcholism rather than repeating Rove's " he just drank a little too much" meme and questioning whether he truly has quit...

Great read, thanks so much for posting this.

:kick: :kick: :kick: MKJ

[Swamp Rat]

8. "spoiled-brat scion of a pretentious ruling-class American family"

:thumbsup:

[Jeanette in FL]

9. Talk about being brutally honest

My two favorite paragraphs from the article:

"Mistakes have been made," admitted an uncomfortable president whom adviser Rove posed in the White House Library, instead of, say, the gym, as if to intellectualize Bush as the First Librarian Spouse. The backdrop for his speech recalled a hapless Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole with walls "filled with cupboards and bookshelves and ... maps and pictures hung upon pegs."

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Our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, provided a mechanism for saving the republic from a president and a vice president who would take the republic down the Rabbit Hole. Perhaps it is time to start that discussion.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. We can't hear enough of this in the news.

We'l have to raise our voices until the only base this country hears is the pounding call for impeachment.

[Hissyspit]

17. Down the rabbit hole...

[KT2000]

20. But - he read two books!

He must be an intellectual.

What he really needs to read is the Constitution.

[cassiepriam]

10. Superb article. nt

[OneBlueSky]

12. TAKING us down the Rabbit Hole? . . . honey, we been down the hole for six years . . .

and that damned cat keeps grinning at us . . . like he knows something that we don't . . .

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Down the Rabbit Hole and through the Looking Glass. Where's my Hookah?

[Hissyspit]

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[Hissyspit]

14. .

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. K&R... graphics...

[truth2power]

19. K&R n/t