Bush is Uriah Heep, the most hypocritical, dishonest character in literature.

[Democrats_win]

Uriah Heep from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield presents himself as "umble" (humble) but he's just a scheming scoundrel who commits fraud against people. His words are meaningless because they're all lies--Just like Bush!

Uriah Heep uses his "umbleness" to trick people into trusting him, just as Bush uses his false religiosity to fool Americans into trusting him. Trusting Uriah Heep leads to such harm that it nearly ruins the lives of several characters. Likewise, trusting Bush has lead America to the true state of the union: ruin!

Uriah Heep is an ugly villain who steals money from old women and worms his way into people’s homes. He is a snake.

As far back as 2000, many Americans suspected that George W. Bush was a fraud. Similarly, David Copperfield suspected that Uriah Heep, whose hands are slimy, was not the man he pretended to be. Bush presented himself as a simple man. Yet he was never a simple man, for his scheme to mislead Americans into Iraq shows how complex his scheme was.

There is no doubt now about Bush! He is the most discredited monster this nation has ever seen. “It is not difficult to do good….” Yet for Bush it might as well be the most impossible thing in the universe because this villain is not capable of doing good.

In Dickens novels, simple people are earnest and hard working. That is a major contrast to the thief of the 2000 election.

[TahitiNut]

1. I awarded that to Orrin Hatch a long time ago.

Bush* is worse.

[meegbear]

2. But what about the group Uriah Heep?

:shrug:

[Sequoia]

3. Yeah, that's why I say!

Uriah Heep creeped me out.

[PATRICK]

4. Heep was smarter

and did his own plotting and machinations. sadly we have been done in by someone considerably more unsubstantial whose reliance of henchmen is nearly total no matter what sympathies he shares with the schemes. He has mostly ruined all of them too in whatever role performance and hollow center he has brought to the show. Bush didn't worm in with his charm, he was shoe-horned in by the media. There is probably no incipient dictator who has actually thought or done so little to obtain power and rule by will. A somewhat humble power madness that will not be crossed, gets energized by spite into doing more than strolling down unchanging paths yet still remain incompetent and uncomprehending without being innocent or dedicated.

Writers would rather have a mad Caligula or murderous Richard II or Spider King or even talk about the grey eminences like Cheney behind the desultory throne of the spoiled weakling than to have to portray this awful, inexplicable portrait the "leader of the free world".

And I thought Nixon made me vomit. Now I know things can easily and a lot of applause and assistance get worse and worse under the worst and the dimmest.

[harlinchi]

5. I'm trying to picture Barbara Bush telling 'W' to 'be humble'...

...but failing miserably!