Bush, The Spoiled Man-Child

[SHRED]

Mr. Morford nails it again.
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"Unlike you or me or any human anywhere who happens to be in possession of humility or subtlety of mind, Bush, to this day, admits zero mistakes. He refuses help, rejects suggestions that everything is not dandy and swell. He is confounded by questions that dare suggest he might be somewhat inept, or failing. And he absolutely insists that America exists in some sort of bizarre utopian vacuum, isolated and virtuous and towering like a mad hobbled king over our enemies and allies alike.

He is, in other words, our downfall. "

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"It's all merely a crayon drawing, an intellectual wading pool, a big messy cartoon world populated by manly white good guys and fanged dark evil guys and we are good and They are evil and that's all there is to it so please stop asking weird tricky polysyllabic questions."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/06/03/notes060305.DTL&nl=fix

[whistle]

1. It sure does nail it, thanks

[sinkingfeeling]

2. That is the best editorial I've read!! The greatest!! My can't I read

stuff like that in my newspapers? Ought to be on the front page of DU!!

[raccoon]

3. Great editorial

thanks for posting that. The analysis of Bush's mental faculties (I know, it's an oxymoron) and way of looking at the world is right on target.

Mark Morford really has a way with words.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Just gotta kick this again! Come on people put this on the front page!

[atommom]

5. Great column! He really nails it.

[seeker4ever]

6. Thanks, I needed that!

I'll be circulating this. It hits the nail on the head.

[Beetwasher]

7. Perfect

Just damn perfect. Nothing more needs to be said.

[kliljedahl]

8. Another gem from Mark

Just finished reading it, & was gonna post when I saw yours. I'm on his mailing list & never miss a column.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[wallwriter]

9. Great column. Love to see it in the MSM.

[otohara]

10. Ahhhh...Monford Makes My Days

he rocks.

[Booster]

11. I think Mr. Morford reads DU on a regular basis. This article is

going out to everybody I know because he does indeed nail Bush.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. And don't miss this beauty calling for IMPEACHMENT in Bangor, Maine:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3778253

Excerpt from this must-read Bangor Daily News op/ed:
So, what does it mean? It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians, destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and poisoned its environment, squandered billions and billions of our tax dollars, made a mockery of American integrity in the world, changed the course of history, tortured Iraqi prisoners, and bound us intractably to an insane situation that they have no idea how to fix because they had no plan, but greed and empire, in the first place.

[Nancy Waterman]

13. Great column from Morford

Bush is, of course, speaking to children. He is speaking to babies. It is a decidedly shallow and hollow and oddly deflated type of language that offers not a single nutritious or substantive thought to the political or cultural dialogue, other than to expand his staggering collection of embarrassing Bushisms.

It's all merely a crayon drawing, an intellectual wading pool, a big messy cartoon world populated by manly white good guys and fanged dark evil guys and we are good and They are evil and that's all there is to it so please stop asking weird tricky polysyllabic questions.

Maybe this is appropriate. Maybe this is as it should be. After all, we are, by and large, a nation that refuses to grow up, refuses to take responsibility for our gluttony and its global effects, refuses to see the world as it is now, a mad tangle of interconnected humanity, a global marketplace, a hodgepodge of variegated religions all stemming from the same source and which therefore all require a nimble and nuanced and deeply intelligent leadership, to navigate. Qualities which our current leadership has, well, not at all.

The U.S. still behaves, when all is said and done, like one of those scared wild monkeys, clinging desperately to a shiny object despite the trap closing in all around us, unable to let go of this old, silly, faux-cowboy mentality of boom boom kill kill God is your daddy now sit down and shut up.

What causes the downfall of empires? What causes the implosion of leadership, the slide of great nations into the deep muck of recession and war and mediocrity and numb irrelevance? That's easy. Stagnation. Refusal to change. Refusal to adapt, to progress. Refusal to grow the hell up, to take responsibility for our shortcomings and failures, as well as our successes.

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Yes, that is truly great. It is well said and comes from deep convictions

that have developed over time. This didn't just pop fully formed out of a sudden change of mind. The thoughts must have been there and in this column the came together in this powerful, anguished statement.

I'm glad the editors didn't water it down to the usual pap we've been getting from all sides. That they didn't is a hopeful sign.

[genieroze]

15. I think he was being kind, I can think of worse things to say about *.

[Turn CO Blue]

16. Best Editorial on the Boy King - Ever. n/t

[bpilgrim]

17. he mentions the "CARTOON WORLD" view

"It's all merely a crayon drawing, an intellectual wading pool, a big messy cartoon world populated by manly white good guys and fanged dark evil guys and we are good and They are evil and that's all there is to it so please stop asking weird tricky polysyllabic questions."

it's embarrassing watching most of the MEDIA and even many of our own 'leaders' giving lip service to his actions especially IRAQ :puke:

but times are a changing for the lame duck - lol

thanks for sharing, great article :toast:

peace

[Pachamama]

18. Spot On...Dubya is America's Caligula....

Bush, The Spoiled Man-Child - Best description of the Chimperor I've read to date...


:puke:

[roscoeroscoe]

19. morford, treasure of the great san francisco bay area...

he's bonafide...