Awesome Sidney Blumenthal - "The Passion of George W. Bush"

[kpete]

The passion of George W. Bush
The president doesn't care that he is reviled. He is a martyr, and someday all will see his glory. Meanwhile, he's got Karl doing his dirty work.

By Sidney Blumenthal

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The more beleaguered Bush becomes, the more he is flattered by his advisors with comparisons to great men of history whose foresight and courage were not always appreciated in their own times. Abraham Lincoln is one favorite. Another is Harry Truman, who established the framework of Cold War policy but left office during the Korean War deeply unpopular with poll ratings sunk in the 20s. Lately, Bush sees himself in the reflected light of Winston Churchill, bravely standing against appeasers. "Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in," Churchill said in 1941 as Britain stood alone against the Nazis. "Bush tells his out-of-town visitors to think of how history will judge his administration 20 years hence and not to worry about setbacks in Iraq," conservative columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave writes.

Of course, Bush does care about the outcome of the midterm elections. He knows full well the catastrophe that his already wounded presidency would suffer if the Republicans were to lose one or the other chamber of Congress. Once again, he is depending upon Rove's skill. But insofar as his policies are concerned "the decider" has decided that public opinion doesn't really matter.

On Tuesday, Bush reached the invisible but fateful mark of 1,000 days left in his term. It is a magical number associated with the 1,000 days of President Kennedy, the time taken as the title of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memoir of that White House. Bush cannot run again and has no obvious successor who will hold his team together. On March 22, he announced that he would leave to the next president the decision about continued U.S. presence in Iraq. In the final days of his backward Camelot he will never, never, never change his basic policies, the source of his unraveling.

The greater the stress the more Bush denies its cause. In his end time he has risen above his policy and is transcending politics. In his life as president he has decided his scourging is his sanctification. Bush will be a martyr resurrected. The future will unfold properly for all the wisdom of his decisions, based on fervent faith, upheld by his holy devotion. Criticism and unpopularity only confirm to him his bravery and his critics' weakness. Being reviled is proof of his righteousness. Inevitably, decades hence, people will grasp his radiant truth and glory. Such is the passion of George W. Bush.

read the whole thing (after short ad) at:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/04/27/rove_bush/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If it were * alone, I would wait for the law of averages to kick in as he

has screwed up almost everything he's touched and responsible republicans and democrats would unite to clean up the mess (providing there's still time to do so).

However, that's not what we have. We have several levels of organized destruction surrounding *. We have his inner circle, all the federal agencies in the executive branch, congressional and Senate majorities who are enabling * to proceed to systematically destroy this country and the 98% of its citizens through redistribution of wealth, a crippling multigenerational debt of $9 TRILLION, and secret printing of currency to flood the market. This is more than one man. This is an "Establishment".

Y'know, pretty soon it won't matter whether or not *'s in the White House or not as his policies will be in place like the anti-New Deal for generations to come. Gore Vidal premised that it will take 3-4 generations to get through the last 5-6 years of the damage * has done.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. There's a market out there for portraits of Chucklenuts

painted on black velvet, ascending to heaven, with an approving Jesus beckoning him. For the more technically oriented, the deluxe version will have little twinkling bulbs representing the cosmos approving his ascension to the realm of the gods.