The Moral Development of George W. Bush

[Gunit_Sangh]

No surprise to DUer's ... this is an excellant article


http://www.counterpunch.com/norris09202003.html

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Remember Tom Hanks' movie, "Big," when the kid, by an accident of fate, finds himself turned into an adult, playing grown-up roles he is not developmentally ready for? This is George. I don't mean this maliciously or satirically; I really mean it. I think developmentally speaking George is a big kid. Lots of people are. The difference is they don't have the means to bomb human beings into "pink mist," obliterate the infrastructures of countries, and poison the world with coal and pesticides and carbon dioxide and depleted uranium and napalm, as they play grown up.

Nowhere was George playing grown-up more conspicuous than his staged re-election photo op on the USS Lincoln. When I saw him all dressed up pretending to be a naval aviator, I kept waiting for him to pull out his GI Joe doll with karate action, sit down and start playing: "Bring 'em on. We can take 'em. Huh, Joe? Take that--heeeyah," while making Joe do a big karate chop as the real soldiers look on, saluting their Commander in Chief.

[teryang]

1. Lends new meaning to the term

"The adults are in charge."

[priller]

2. Glad you posted this

I read it yesterday and thought it was excellent. It's amazing to me that people here can see Dubya is a moral infant, whereas many "good Christians" in this country are completely bamboozled. I still keep wondering what these people think Dubya has done, as opposed to what he has said, that makes them think he has even the slightest bit of Christian charity about him. After all, Jesus said, "By their fruits shall you know them...".

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

3. Apperances can be devieveing

I have a fundy friend who automaticly trusts the guy just because he's a fundamentalist Christian and thus he has integrety. And to think this is the same dude who bitches about gays being amoral.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[Skittles]

4. yup

except for a glaring spelling error (willing to please and needy enough to believe the *rolls* in which he is cast), it is dead on.

[soupkitchen]

5. Maybe the guy meant GW was Poppyseed