"The Amazing Shrinking President"

[GreenPartyVoter]

It's hard to listen to George W. Bush and not think about the Wizard of Oz.

What comes to mind is the weak, fallible human being who was revealed when Toto pulled the curtain.

There, in the small booth, a small, ordinary man, not an omnipotent sorcerer, frantically yanks at levers and dials. When the ''wizard" finally admits the obvious fraud, Dorothy says, ''Oh, you're a very bad man." Replies the wizard, ''Oh, no, my dear, I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad wizard."

Of course, ''The Wizard of Oz" -- published first in 1900 as a children's story by L. Frank Baum, then made world-famous by the classic 1939 movie starring Judy Garland -- has long been debated as political allegory.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1009-28.htm

[donco6]

1. I think the wizard in "Wicked" is more accurate.

Incompetent, somewhat dull, but a great shyster.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Trouble is, we don't really have the option

of paying no attention to that man behind the curtain.

:grr:

[ClintonTyree]

3. Maybe a house will fall on him...........

hey, it could happen. Too many photo-ops in hurricane and tornado rich areas........ :shrug: