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| Thursday, September 16, 2004 03:11 AM |
| More Politicized Rants |
 by Fëanor |
So, has our president completely f*ed up the entire Iraq situation? Does anyone still doubt that? Check out the story on the latest estimates for where Iraq is going. "Pessimistic" is right.
Salon, as usual, has some great articles on the various Bush debacles; one on the war, one on the military records, and a really entertaining one called "The Dunce." This one is mainly an interview with Yoshi Tsurumi, one of Bush's professors at Harvard Business School. He says he felt it was his duty to point out what an arrogant asshole Bush was, and continues to be.
The latter article is great, and since I know not all of you are subscribed to Salon, and are too lazy to watch the commercial that you need to watch to see whole articles (I do it every day, because I'm cheap, and can't remember poppy's login), I will quote the best parts for you. Raise your hands, who thinks the following sounds familiar?
"He showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him." When asked to explain a particular comment, said Tsurumi, Bush would respond, "Oh, I never said that."....
"He denounced labor unions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Medicare, Social Security, you name it. He denounced the civil rights movement as socialism. To him, socialism and communism were the same thing. And when challenged to explain his prejudice, he could not defend his argument, either ideologically, polemically or academically."
This bit sounds really familiar, too:
Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."
And I love this description:
"The other children of the rich and famous were at least well bred to the point of realizing universal values and standards of behavior," Tsurumi said. But Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back row of the theater-like classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.
And the end of the article:
Tsurumi's conclusion: Bush is not as dumb as his detractors allege. "He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no compassion," he said.
That's the scary bit--that Bush isn't that dumb. He's an ignorant bully, but he has his own nasty kind of cleverness.
And he might actually win this election! What is wrong with people! Wake up! This guy is a lying, bigoted scumbag who's failed in every way as a president--in terms of the economy, foreign policy, the environment, national defence, you name it. The only thing he's succeeded in doing well is helping out his rich cronies. Every major policy decision he's made has been wrong. This man does not represent me. Also, I remember when there was a separation of church and state--does anybody else remember that?
My friend Libby likes to write a word of the day on the board at work here. Today I suggested one to her, kind of randomly: atavistic. But thinking about it, I realized how appropriate this word is. Bush is atavistic. His policies and beliefs are atavistic. He's a throwback to a brutish, superstitious, arrogant, close-minded primitive, a creature that we should have left behind ages ago in the development of our species.
Wow. I'm especially angry about this today for some reason. |
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