The Boy in the Bubble and More Scared Shitless Than Ever

[Laura PourMeADrink]

After reading the Newsweek article,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek

"Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One."

It is hard to fathom, to get a president of the United States, to be interested in an event, you have to make a DVD for him, like babysitting a child

"But it is not clear what President Bush does read or watch, aside from the occasional biography and an hour or two of ESPN here and there. Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him."

This means B* knows absolutely nothing about what is going on in the world. Nothing. Imagine, never watching the news, never reading the newspaper, never hearing any "bad news"? It is like a wonderland.

This puts an entirely different spin on things, for me. It is truly impossible to know what reality exists for him. It is one created by Rove and Rumsfeld and Condi and Cheney. No wonder he praises them and stands by them, no matter what. He has NEVER heard anything bad about them - because they wouldn't tell him anything bad. He probably doesn't even know that the war is going bad. He obviously didn't know that the hurricane was bad until the Friday after.

Today, for some reason, this reality has sunk in completely for me. I am frightened for our country and the world more than ever after reading this article.

[zbdent]

1. "Where's my TELETUBBIES???"

AF1 must have a direct satellite feed . . .

[havocmom]

2. He is the perfect front man for an evil bunch with an agenda. No interest

in anything but getting stroked, they just have to appease his ego and give him wht words to say. So long as he gets lots of time for his life and gets to pull one-up-man-ship on Poppy, he's happy and easy to lead around.

But he is NOT the leader of anything.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. But isn't this absolutely insane? abnormal? crazy? lunatic? I can't

imagine ANYONE, from the lowliest citizen not taking an interest in the storm to some degree. But to not have ANY passing interest for a freakin president? Not to say, "let's watch the news"??

[havocmom]

19. You've got his number! Insane, abnormal, crazy lunatic almost sums it up

but throw in sociopath for accuracy and arrested adolescence with parental issues for color ;)

[xxqqqzme]

28. need 2 include 'lazy'

in any list of adjectives. Lazy is a good puritanically driven word. It is very apt that the over-indulged, privileged, pampered, perverse prince of the tex-ass oil fields be labeled lazy.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. So maybe his handlers got their schedules mixed up and

no one was in charge of him when Katrina hit?

[havocmom]

20. Oh maybe there is some truth to those reports of violent outbursts and

rage? Maybe they were just afraid. The junior grade aids don't have the pull with him and everybody else was on vacation. Guess Cheney was too busy mansion hunting to pick up a phone and give the orders to reel the boy in and make him look busy.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I totally agree with you.

I never thought he was "handled" so completely. I am someone who resists calling Bush Hitler because I have always believed that hyperbole weakens our argumments. But from my reading this is definitely a characteristic of dangerous leadership: when your underlings are so afraid of you they only tell you what you want to hear.

Very scary.

[electron_blue]

4. Yep, this is where I've been for the last 2 weeks

[opihimoimoi]

6. Why is he still there....who benefits? Is he masking something worse?

The Perfect Dufus...perhaps too simplistic....No one can be that dumb and and remain Prez....without propping...Y??

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. He looks like he just got out of an ass whooping

[Henny Penny]

9. "Imagine never watching the news...."

Why should he? he knows its rubbish...

I bet he's online every day checking out the blogs to see whats reallyhappening.com...

:sarcasm:

Heck, he might even be a DUer...(some people here never use the spell checker!) ;-)

[KoKo]

10. Not only is that frightening but he's been enabled by a Corporate Media,

a willing opposition (Most Dems) a former President and the leader of a European Country (GB's Tony Blair).

We should all be very afraid. He is there, because he was willingly installed. Looking back on it ...the Selection of 2000 and before that the "Hunting of the President" (Clinton) should have been a wake up call that something was very wrong with the elected officials in this country. They stood by and watched all this happen and neither party had the guts to stand up to it. WHY?

That's the question...WHY? Incomepetence? Laziness? or Complicity?

I don't know if there's one answer or if all three of my theories are what has happened. but we are in some serious stuff here.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. But why is Bush so powerful? Why are people so afraid? If he is

such a dolt and ignoramus? That has to mean that EVERYONE around him is pure evil. (Duh)

[whatever4]

12. Frankly

I lost hope for our nation when he said he doesn't watch the news...and we didn't get rid of him right then and there. It said it all. Just the fact that our president could say something like that and get away with it showed how far we'd fallen. And no, I don't think we're going to get back up.

We might have been okay, with oil shortages and droughts. We might have been okay, with global warming, health care crisis, an over-polluted environment and fishing indusries falling, and maybe not worry too much about our third-world infant mortality and highest levels of stress and depression, and don't forget our number one standing in prisoners. We might have been okay.

But for the fact that we elected a group of people that never wanted us to be okay in the first place. We might have been okay. But we let the wolves in, and all they want is blood money.

[TahitiNut]

13. Bushocchio has NEVER been able to walk a straight line ...

... without a firm hand on the strings. Gepetto Cheney and his assistants need a break - and put the puppet back in his box in Crawford when they get tired.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. "Gepetto" - Love it -- here's a picture for you TahitiNut

[flordehinojos]

14. one track mind and tunnel vision...what an Ahole of a president!

[Hamlette]

16. yikes, that's a damning article...shocking bec. its from US media

I was plenty scared/disgusted when he said he didn't read the papers but that's the symptom, not the case.

Bush's problem is he has no curiosity. He's "incurious" George. How could you not travel given the chance? How could you sit and read a kids book for 7-25 minutes after being told the US was under attack? How could you insist those around you only tell you what you want to hear?

The only way I can relate to it is by comparing it to my own lack of interest in sports. I'm asportual. I think its learned. I grew up in a family of eggheads. My mom was reading philosophy books and talking to us about them. Sports was never mentioned. So, if that us universal, it means that his parents didn't "worry their beautiful minds" with ideas either? That doesn't seem right but it could be.

Shit, I wish someone in that family would write a tell all. Maybe I'll read Kitty Kelly after all, or Bush on the couch. I understand him less now than I did 6-7 years ago when we first started hearing about him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. funny. I feel the same way about science fiction. But, if I was head

of the International Science Fiction Society (does one exist?) I think I would wonder and delve into what was going on.

You are the first to tie the lack of curiosity on 9-11 to the same during the hurricane. It is unfathomable, huh.

[Hamlette]

22. exactly, but would your RUN to be head of the ISFS?

(International Science Fiction Society...if there is one?)

Not only did bush run for a job he seems uninterested in, he sold his soul for the job. He's sepnt the last 5 years lying, cheating, killing and shitting on the rest of the world. Of course, the possibility exists that he doesn't think those things are bad.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. LOL - No I wouldn't run for the ISFS. I do think that I am still

grappling with the eternal debate: Is he truly evil or is he a hapless, ignorant pawn. One can argue that regardless of which is true, he still bares responsiblity. However, given the total vacumn in which he choses to live his life, does he even know the true results of his actions?

Regardless of which you chose -- ignorance or evil, or some combination of the two, there are sad an dangerous consequences for the entire world.

[Hamlette]

26. it is one of the biggies. . .

is he dumb (your choice of hapless is a better word) or is he evil.

If you figure out the answer, I have another biggie for you: why did we really invade Iraq. I never believed it was oil but now I wonder what we are left with? Nothing makes sense.

Then, if you figure that one out, tell me why he blew NO? It is politics 101, kiss babies, visit disaster scenes and pretend to care. Can he really not to the political thing when Karl is sick?

I'll ask my bridge club Thursday, if you haven't figured it out by then, I'll let you know the answers (ha ha).

I can't WAIT for the tell all on this admin. Maybe the guy really is nuts like Capital Hill Blue has been telling us for ages.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Wow, you hit the nail on the head. These are MY three biggest

questions, as well.

Dumb vs Evil: I think I have him pegged as a Crony Capitalist Plutocrat who is Intellectually Lazy to the Nth degree.

Why Invade Iraq?: Definitely not to protect the US, Definitely not to find WMD, Definitely not to free the Iraqi people. Definitely not to fight the enemy there instead of here, Definitely not to spread democracy and freedom...

It is something much larger. Control the world's oil, I guess. Too bad we have no film of that infamous meeting with Cheney and the heads of the oil companies where they had a map of Iraq on the wall and they were divying it up.

But even this, does not seem big enough to be the true reason for the invasion. If you read all the stuff on Wilson and the Niger deal - all involved, with no apparent dissenters, acted like it was life or death to discredit Wilson, hide the forged Niger documents, and allow false information to be put in the State of the Union address.

It is like there is a secret club, with a secret goal, and there is nothing that the members won't do to keep the secret safe.

Why withhold aid to NOLA? Jury out on this one until Blanco speaks up more. After reading the account in the NYT Sunday, it was clear that Nagin and Blanco did not understand the machinations of the Government and how you make things happen. I can not help but think that B*, et al, were aware of this and used it to their advantage to make them look like failures. On the other hand, FEMA screwed MS too, so not sure on this one. What I didn't get, and kept screaming about, was why didn't they help those poor convention center people - not because they gave a shit - but to get the bad PR off tv.

[donsu]

17. smirk doesn't care to know and after he does know he doesn't care

look - the bushgang had/has plans to take advantage of any natural or man made disaster.

don't distract them, they are working a job, on us.

distractors are dealt with.

[Ladyhawk]

21. Maybe this is to blame rather than MIWOP.

Make It Worse On Purpose. There's a part of me that can't understand this level of incompetence in a POTUS. Because of his inability to even complete a coherent sentence, I always assumed someone else was pulling the strings. Maybe the scary truth is that Dubya really is in charge??? Or is that just a crazy "conspiracy theory"?

[kittykitty]

23. they should make him watch BBC World News every night.!

[Generator]

24. I've known this for some time

And it should of course make you scared shitless. Seymour Hersch was talking about this all last year-Bush's surrounded by yes men and yes men only. He's incompetenent-clearly-nasty-clearly and yet we have nobody but the alternative press, entertainment (Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart) and one or two Dems in our corner. (excuse that we have the entire black congressional congress, Cnythia McKenney and Boxer and Kerry once in ahwile) But yeah, you are damn well on your own. What do people think 9/11 was? It wasn't their fault? They had no warnings? HA HA. What about Iraq? Oh yeah and that's going swimmingly well too. Between the level of sheer staggering incompetence without REMEDY-no firing-no one even dares to mention what worthless trashbags they are-and they sneaking suspicion that some of it they just let happen for their own devious ends-well spending time on DU can seriously damage your reality.