Which novel LEAST resembles the life of our dear decider and chief cheerleader?

[Democrats_win]

My choice would be the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The character Paul Atreides is portrayed as a wise leader, nearly a cross between Gandhi and Jesus. The novel is a look back at how his legend began.

His mother teaches him how to observe and how to fight off great danger. His father, Duke Leto, is a strong leader who commanded great loyalty from his followers.

Duke Leto was, "a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son."

It would seem easy to dim the 1000 tiny lights of W's father, but clearly dimson is a walking black hole compared to just about anything.

If people look back on Smirking Chimp, they will see a liar, a coward and a fraud. In using religion, bush and his cronies were not shining a light on the glory of any god but stealing God's glory to gain power.

France's Louis XV realized his leadership would lead to collapse when he said, "Apres mois le deluge." In some sense the thief of the 2000 election only offers the vision of some sort of "flamme" in the form of Armageddon. Ironic since eveyone criticized his father for not having any vision at all!

Dune's Paul represents integrity and promise, a future that he is admired for creating.

In two years, Uriah Heep Bush will probably be in prison, left to his legacy. America will move on to better times. That's the promise of the 2006 election.

[Erika]

1. Bush enabled the rape of our country

Yes, W will go down in infamy.

[Canuckistanian]

2. I see nothing resembling a Duke Leto/Paul Atreides relationship

More like a Papa Doc/Baby Doc relationship.

So, I guess you're right.

[patrice]

3. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

In which a humble peasant fights and struggles against a divine call and the people fall in love with him for real, until he sacrifices himself rather than lead them into a bloody revolution against Rome, thus showing them what a REAL Revolution looks like.

[TheBaldyMan]

4. Hamlet, not a novel but almost the anti-Bush biography

a tortured cerebral prince who does become the decider, everybody dies, Mission Accomplished.

Apologies in advance to all the Shakespeare experts out there.

[Lisa]

5. and another point -- one can't read Dune without thinking about how precious water is

Meanwhile, Bush babbles about how he knows all about saving water (seizing yet another chance to pretend he's from a hardscrabble ranch in West Texas). But practically the first thing he does when he gets that Crawford property is to build a lavish private fishing pond (which dries out so much due to the predictably-high evaporation the first summer, that the fish die).

[patrice]

6. Oh, but didn't that result in a good crop of frogs to blow up?

Mission Accomplished!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. "Siddartha" by Herman Hesse