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To: tbancroft who wrote (552)	9/20/2005 1:24:25 PM
From: Guardian	Respond to of 873

from yahoo thread: In case you missed Real Time on Friday (HBO) with Bill Maher, here was his open letter to the President (read at close of show): Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend. You used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished. Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote. But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes. On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side. So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: Take a hint. <<Nice guy, I actually saw the show last night in which he did this routine. It was without a doubt the funniest and the most brutal attack I've ever seen on the president - an unbelievable combination of humor and scorn that was deeply cathartic - clearly because like most Americans, Maher is totally disgusted at this president and his gross incompetence.>> Actually, wants, the most brutal attack on the president was self-inflicted: it was Bush's attempt to assassinate himself with a pretzel. Luckily for him, his gross incompetence, perhaps combined with excessive alcohol intake, allowed him to pass out before he could complete his mission and report for duty on a new assignment to his Commander-in-Chief in the afterlife. The retrospective on Bush doesn't improve with time because the problems created or aggravated by his astonishing mediocrity don't go away. Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn" analogy is ironic. Not only does it aptly describe how thoroughly Bush has broken Iraq while giving Islamic terrorism a huge booster shot, but Powell and others grossly underestimated how much Bush might be able to break during his time in office. How could Powell have known how much Bush would do to break the military, or the nation, or larger contexts like global political community and the global ecosphere? Similarly, many who supported Bush on his way to the presidency, have looked on with horror at his dramatization of the Peter Principle -- Bush rapidly moved beyond whatever competency he may have had to a level where he was in way over his head. He has consistently followed the dictum that it is much more important to look good and do well than to be good or do good. In this way Bush has so far managed to escape blame for most of the long sad compendium of what Bush has and hasn't done as President. Instead, others like Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. get to be the fall guys because they were supposedly the grown-ups with enough smarts and competency to take responsibility for designing and implementing a plan that Bush could never understand let alone pull off. Bush has a hard time taking on more than long vacations or frequent photo opportunities. What Bush does well is mirror the greed of those whose money bought him the Presidency, the stupidity of those whose votes ratified it, and the thick resistance to learning of those repeat offender voters who returned one of their own to the White House even after getting to see what happened during the first four years.