American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs From the Gut-by David Michael Green

[kpete]

Published on Friday, August 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs From the Gut
by David Michael Green

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So, why does George W. Bush insist on governing from the gut? Because, as we’ve seen, it’s easier, because it allows him to do whatever he wants to do, because it helps him to feel secure in his own little frightened world, and because it scores points for him with American voters furiously seeking escape from their own nasty demons. Those are lots of good reasons, and would seem alone to be plenty enough explanation for Bush’s decision-making style.

But, of course, there is one other very good reason to add to the list. George Bush also governs from the gut because it’s all he’s got. Being a lovable rogue, a class clown, a party-down-lampshade-wearing-beer-spilling frat boy drunk and a family screw-up certainly make for one particular set of life experiences, and far be it from me to sit in judgment of any given individual who chooses those paths for themselves.

There’s just one problem, though, in this particular case. This individual happens to be president of the United States. This individual has his finger on a trigger which could annihilate the planet. This individual is commander-in-chief of the most fearsome military apparatus ever to exist. This person makes decisions which dramatically affect people’s lives, here and abroad, including how long those lives actually last. This person chooses policies that will likely still be impacting what happens in the world generations from now.

But this individual is woefully unprepared to shoulder such awesome responsibility. This individual hasn’t done his homework over the five decades he had to prepare for office. His brain isn’t up to the task, and his heart wouldn’t know empathy even if they were formally introduced to each other in a Baghdad emergency operating room.

So there is one more reason that George W. Bush governs from the gut. He has to. There is so very little else north of there to draw upon.

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[TahitiNut]

1. Duhbya is an anatomical curiosity.

His colon is located in his skull and his rectum extends down his backside where an ordinary person's spine would be. He passes gas in an approximation of speech and his smirks are really gas pains.

:shrug:

[90-percent]

2. GWB is living proof

GWB is living proof sociopaths make bad Presidents.

But if we have to choose from the pool of American psycho's, I think mass murderer Ted Bundy would have been a much better President than GWB.

John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahlmer would both have been single term Presidents. They have a wee bit too much empathy for others to be effective.

-85% jimmy