Revisionism can be a riot of laughter; a cornucopia of mirth and merriment for anyone with a halfway-decent knowledge of history. So it was with the cascade of nonsense flowing in torrents out of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at its opening this week. It was a hoot watching the speakers pay tribute to the disgusting little thug - especially the Democrats! The very spectacle of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama attempting to twist the English language like salt water taffy in order to honor this guy was too much for the senses to even come close to comprehending. About the best the president could come up with was this beauty:
"To know George W. Bush is to like him."
Somebody hand me my chisel.?
It was about as surreal as any news event that has been my dubious joy to witness with my own eyes. Did you catch the aptly-named, Andy Card? This bird-brain was actually bragging to a reporter from CNN about Bush's economic record! I believe the words he used were, "second to none". Indeed. Does our man Andy even know the definition of the word, "irony"? More than a few people on this day were saying that history would be kind to Bush. Someone on Fox Noise even had the chutzpa to put the hideous little bastard up right up there in the pantheon of great American presidents:
"George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan....George W. Bush"
It's bad enough that these knuckleheads still insist on putting the likes of Reagan on the same level as Lincoln and FDR - but George W. Bush??? ?
Can grown adults be that completely unhinged from reality that they sincerely believe that Posterity is going forgive the worst blunder ever made by the American electorate? Remember the reason people gave for voting for Bush? They would rather have a beer with him than the nerdy, policy-wonk, Al Gore - or the colorless boy-scout-wannabe, John
Kerry. Truth be told, I would much rather prefer having a beer with George W. Bush. You see, I have this fantasy about smashing the half-witted little frat boy up the side the head with a bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
We can console ourselves? in the knowledge that the elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen. Had every vote been counted - and every registered voter given access to the ballot box - Bush would have lost both of those contests. He won the state of Florida in 2000 because his brother, the governor, denied 57,000 legally registered African Americans the right to vote. He won Ohio four years later because the Republicans made damned sure that polling places in the cities of that state would be limited to a small handful, and therefore, quite crowded. People left the polling lines in utter frustration. A lot of them had children at home waiting for dinner. Nowadays, the success of the GOP depends upon the suppression of votes. What do you think those "Voter ID" laws were all about? You might want to make a little note of that.
One does not envy the people in charge of developing the exhibits for the Dubya Library. Whoever the poor bastards are I hope they're paid quite handsomely for their efforts. It takes real talent to turn a mountain of chickenshit into a tasty plate of chicken salad. Sure, Bush and Cheney rid the Middle East of a naughty "evil-doer" named Saddam Hussein, but they did it by means of some incomprehensible evil-doing. Does the Iraqi War Wing of this place take note of the fact that by invading the (like it or not) sovereign nation of Iraq the Bush Mob created a geo-political catastrophe that will be with us for decades? I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that they probably neglected to include that nasty little reality in their presentation. Why waste one's time with cold, hard facts when fantasy is so much more palatable to one's deluded sense of reality? Welcome to Bush World. Enjoy your stay - and watch yer step, Buster, ya hear?
I wonder if they have a wing that highlights what "a heck of a job" that his disgusting administration did during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. I really hope so. I've only been to Dallas, Texas once - and that was a very long time ago. I don't imagine I'll be passing through the town any time soon, but that alone would be worth the price of the journey! Can you imagine the job it took to sugarcoat that one? It was Katrina, more than anything else, that finally woke the American people up to the horrible realization that sending these idiots to Washington was an error of incalculable dimensions.?At the FDR Library in Hyde Park, there is a building called "The Henry Wallace Welcoming Center", named for Roosevelt's second vice-president. Call it a silly hunch on my part, but I doubt very much that the Bush Library's "welcoming center" bears the name of Dick Cheney. Who in their right mind would ever enter the joint if that were the case?
I can remember the first time first time I ever laid eyes on George W. Bush. It was in May of 1988, when his father was being seriously challenged in the South Carolina primaries by preacher-from-hell, Pat Robertson.? He was being interviewed on NBC News, telling the correspondent that no one was "gonna whup" his daddy. If you had told me then and there that in thirteen years this inarticulate jackass would be the president of the United States of America I would have said, "Have another sip". As Fats Waller liked to say, "One never knows, does one."
BAD NEWS:
Whoever is president in fifty years from now in 2063 probably hasn't even been born yet. Whomever he or she may be, they will still - on a daily basis - be dealing with the damage that George W. Bush and company did to this once-great nation generations before. Best of luck to them.?
GOOD NEWS:
Most of us will be dead and gone by that time. Isn't that nice?
During the entire eight, gruesome years that George called the White House "home", I only wrote one letter to him. It is dated March 19, 2007, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Here it is for the record in its entirety:?
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Dear President Bush,
Today on MSNBC, they re-broadcast the footage from May 1, 2003 of you on the deck of the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln. I saw the Mission Accomplished banner. I saw you in that silly flight suit. I saw you with that disgusting smirk on your face as you declared, "Major combat operations in Iraq are over."?
Question: Sir, with the benefit of 20/20 historical hindsight, do you even have a clue as to how fucking stupid you looked? Just wondering.
Love and peace,
Tom Degan
PS - By the way, when you get a chance, have a look at my blog:
www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
It's a lot of fun!
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This is more than likely the last piece I'll be writing for a very long time on the depressing subject of George W. Bush. Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of his idiotic "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" stunt on the Deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln - a mission that would never be accomplished. I won't be taking note of it. It's about time we consigned him to history's shit pile where he rightfully belongs. Unless he says or does something really stupid, or unless still more evidence comes to the surface shedding even more light on how mind-jarringly corrupt his administration was (both scenarios not being out of the realm of possibility), I'm pretty much through thinking about Dubya.
Thanks a heap, George!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net?
SUGGESTED READING:
Bushwhacked - Life in George W. Bush's America
by Molly Ivins? ?
A hysterically funny (and terribly sad) book detailing the fallout from Dubya's reign of error from the greatest political humorist who ever walked this troubled earth.
Source: http://tomdegan.blogspot.com/2013/04/rainin-on-dubyas-parade.html
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