Vanity Fair: No, He Is Not the Paris Hilton of U.S. Presidents

[Buck Turgidson]

Editor's Letter
by Graydon Carter October 2007

Is it possible that for the past seven years we've gotten President George W. Bush wrong? Is it possible that that effortless stupidity and inexplicable arrogance that have become his hallmark are all just an act? Like Borat—only dumber? Is it possible that Bush figured he could accomplish more for the commonweal if he didn't come off as just another responsible, competent world leader? Perhaps he believed that if he assumed the guise of a strutting, bumbling, dim-witted ass, everyone would give him a wide berth, much the way drivers slow down when they see a car swerving madly up ahead. Genius, right? Think about it. Perhaps Bush was Rove's brain! Perhaps the vice president actually does report to the president. Perhaps Bush doesn't go to bed at 9:30, but instead, like Castro, works through the night in some candlelit aerie in the West Wing, his Promethean intellect humming away as he dots the i's and crosses the t's of his devilishly clever master plan. Maybe he's not the incurious, isolated simpleton the press makes him out to be. (See Todd Purdum's "Inside Bush's Bunker," in this month's issue.) Perhaps the president has been playing chess while the rest of us have been playing checkers.

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. Recommended. Superior sarcasm! Sizzling satire!

Viciously venomous!

:rofl: :woohoo: :kick:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. that 's not chess he's playing.

those are toy soldiers he is moving around Iraq, makingrat-tat-tat, bang, boom and kaboom noises with his mouth. "Drop the big one General, drop the kaplowey big one! I need more troop. Give me more troop! gimme a surge!"

[LiberalFighter]

4. You are right

And I bet he arranged for his daddy and mommy to have sex so he would be born.

[babylonsister]

3. Good writing, fun article, but there is NO way it's an act. nt

[sce56]

5. Here is a picture to go with that editorial

[Loge23]

6. Who's stupider, him or us?

It's us, the American people, that eat this stuff up.
We tolerate not only the administration's shenanigans, but also the only existing "opposition" party's as well.
The idiot-in-chief is Alfred E. Newman - coverboy for the country.

...now let's see, who among the accepted mass-market choices should I vote for in '08?

[pscot]

7. In a Democracy you get the government you deserve

H.L.Mencken predicted that sooner or later the American electorate would realize their ideal, and elevate a complete moron to the presidency. And by golly we did. Twice.