This week March 20th , 2006 Mr. Bush came to my town on the Third Anniversary of the War. He arrived at the Airport, no GOP Dignataries arrived to greet him or shake his hand. And Ohio is full of such GOP Strong Men, Mr Noe, Mr .Voinovich, Mr. DeWine.It was a striking moment watching him come down the stairs of the plane and search the empty tarmack with his eyes. It was a telling moment of the State That Susposedly Gave him this Presidency of 2004, now the Touchdown of a Failed Presidency.
The Protestors showed up by the 100 in the town center, and only a handful of his supporters showed up across the street dressed in Red, White and Blue and carrying small feeble signs. They huddled like lost soccer moms, and only held their signs waiste high, before they left quietly.
He gave a speech at the City Club to a echoey chamber of the Elite, another belly up to the Podium Moment.He rambled, he cajoled, he snickered and made strange inappropriate jokes. He seemed out of touch, like the Drunk Uncle at the Thanksgiving Dinner that no one wants to sit next to, much less get into a sparring match. The applause was tenative and polite like what you would hear at a Golf Tournament when an Old Timer makes a safe shot, but needs a Mulligan.
His speech was susposed to reassure and impress, but the problem is that the carnage from Iraq and the Katrina Zone outweigh his words and render him impotent. His poll numbers continue to sag like an old woman's dress drying in the breeze on a stormbent clothesline. His Blunders are now measured daily in dead bodies, and the whole world is watching.
He can't Drive the Podium, so the bigger question is should he be driving the Country ?
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Bravo, babe, bravo. Clean up the spelling and this would be just about perfect.
And I think that you can reset the date and time stamp on the editing page. I'm linking to this on my next Assclowns of the Week.
Enigma: What lovely images you painted. I loved 'em all. A glimpse of reality, if only I could reconcile those images with the pictures and sounds from assclown's rare 'press conference' yesterday where a new Bush tried out his latest routine. DEFIANCE!, as illustrated by how Helen Thomas pushed him into a corner to work him over, to the brink of losing his temper (something that huge would be difficult to misplace, remembering how he once drove the car through the garage door when Pickles once critiqued him).
But it didn't work, with a sudden burst of lightning fast jabs to the mid-section (some questionably below the belt), he charged forward and with a sucker punch outta no-where, laid poor Helen flat on the canvas, unable to respond with a comeback. I'm sure today she's hurting from the red marks left from his tongue lashing. For a moment, when Bush boldly called on Thomas for the first time in years, he lost his humor. It was a good lesson to the roomful of aspiring reporters; to show what would happen to them, too, if they stepped out of line to attempt serious journalism. So they just chuckled nervously.
But despite pehishead's new recalcitrance, the message is still the same stale bullshit. But he hasn't lost his talent to make the pressroom echo with laughter at his country bumpkin, good old boy, just-like-us, "but I've heard of that word" faux humility referring to the "Armageddon" his extremist Xtian fanatics keep pushing him (and us) towards.
Geez, if only we had a mainstream media doing their job instead of a comedy club audience giggling at Bush's latest act, being amused by a felon and international war criminal. I liked your images far better because it enabled my mind to get delightfully creative with 'em. Thanks!
E4e: I forgot to mention how much I like your new blog "face". Love the color. It goes so well, with that knock-dead, flaming red hair!
Hey, wait. How the hell'd I get in here? This page doesn't exist on your blog link. Wait, wait....none of the walls has a door. No windows. How the hell do I get outta here's what I should be asking. Oh, wait a second. I get it. This place is a metaphor for Bush's America, isn't it?
Just dropped by to visit. Saw you over on Dusty's blog. Good to know someone's keeping an eye on the big O to my east. Let's work together to turn the Midwest blue once more.
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