Somewhere Inside George W. Bush
Dr. Gerry Lower
Bush Watch, www.bushwatch.com
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that he is a chronic failure, a failure at the best schools in America, a failure at holding his booze, a failure in the baseball business, a failure in the oil business. Even worse, he knows that he is a failure in the realm of personal self-improvement, failing to acquire much knowledge of the world outside of his family's dynastic play pen. Bush would, in fact, be a total no account failure in life were it not for his family's money and influence and his open mind about insider trading, were it not for the blind support of people who are no longer able to make a distinction between democracy and crony capitalism.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he is aware of his limited abilities to comprehend and communicate intelligently. Afterall, he has to listen to his own conceptual and verbal stumbling almost daily. He can't have missed it.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he is aware that he is likely the most ill-educated, ill-experienced, ill-advised and inconsistent presidential puppet to ever be dangled around in the Oval Office.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he is aware that his own intellectual limitations put him under the dominion of those who are even less "Christian" than he claims to be, people who are demonstrably ignorant of the values of democracy on a daily basis.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that he is precisely the Howdy Doody that the religious right was looking for in order to monger power and control in promoting their own self-serving, corrupt agenda, not Bush's agenda (which he does not and could not possess).
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that there is a difference between Christian compassion and religious belligerence and self-righteousness. He knows that you can't destroy human life with executions and precision bombing and then pretend to be working for the Prince of Peace.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that he would never be able to survive his office if anything even remotely resembling the truth gets into the mainstream press to be honestly considered by the people.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that his presidency is already over, except for the threats and lies and denials, that he is never going to be able to spin a pre-meditated, unprovoked war on an impoverished, nearly-defenseless nation into an act of high Christian morality in the eyes of the world.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that all the lies and fabrications and dirty tricks will catch up with him, as they always seem to catch up with dishonest people. Funny (and fortunate) how the world works that way, is it not?
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that he is a dry drunk, a man who has found a way to be smug, belligerent and self-righteous without drinking a drop, a truly godlike accomplishment. He knows that if he diverges even for a moment from his religious convictions, he would be back on the bottle.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows his life has been a series of fabrications, manipulations and bailouts designed to keep his boat afloat, that his entire past and current status have no relationship to honest human truth, that his entire history doesn't really exist except as a fervently-maintained fabrication. President or pauper, this outcome is always something of a human tragedy.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that his entire program is a puff of capitalistic smoke, a fabrication without substance, a pyramid sitting on its nose, only as good as the fabrications which prop it up, dependent upon more and more fabrications, until the people ultimately can see his blessed nudity.
Somewhere deep down inside George W. Bush, he knows that all of these things are so, because these conclusions are far more empirically-justifiable than suggestions that he knows something about democracy, let alone suggestions that he knows how to provide democratic leadership to the world.
The question is this : What events might catalyze a glorious personal epiphany, a self-realization of his own ignorance and incompetence? What might be the nature of the words which would bring George W. Bush back to earth and to his knees in self-abhorance? What might be the nature of the personal downfall when Bush accepts the inescapable fact that his knowledge of Jefferson's Democracy and Christ's ethical morality isn't worth a spit, that he has no business whatsoever being in the White House, that he has executed Jefferson and Franklin right along with the rest of the criminals in his mind, and screwed over the most promising nation in the evolution of human culture, all in the name of a tiny handful of greedy, self-rightous people like himself, comprising all of one half percent of the world's population.
Given the massive amount of darkness embraced by the Bush administration (which has reduced their pupils to tiny black specks), it is just a matter of time before George Jr. and his crony capitalist cadre are simply blinded by the light.
You might want to get yourself a pair of shades for this apocalyptic event. It is a given. |
