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Sicko and the sickees
No, this post has nothing to do with Michael Moore's new film. It does have to do with The Garbler, The Liar, The Incompetent-er and how he is thought of on this earth.
Wow, Rosa Brooks absolutely nailed it June 15 in the Los Angeles Times. The entire commentary is sharp and biting, amazingly so for being on the editorial page of one of the country's major newspapers.
She succinctly sums up where our country and the world is currently at with The September-ist -- no make that the Decade-ist (hopefully that's not being too coy or obscure):
"...Six and a half years into his interminable presidency, the whole world is sick of him."
United, not divided -- against BushGo here for the rest.
Courts, conservatives, military officers and everyone outside Albania can agree on one thing: They're tired of the president.
Rosa Brooks
Los Angeles Times
June 15, 2007
YOU KNOW YOU'VE got a problem when only the Albanians welcome you with open arms and even then you need to take your watch off to keep them from stealing it.
This is what it's come down to for President Bush, a duck so lame he's nearly quadriplegic. Six and a half years into his interminable presidency, the whole world is sick of him.
American presidents used to make triumphal tours of Europe, where they'd be greeted by enthusiastic crowds. Bush's European trips bring out crowds too, but they're usually calling enthusiastically for his indictment.
Last week's presidential tour featured lots of protest and precious little adulation. In the Czech Republic, demonstrators greeted Bush with signs reading "Bush number one terrorist." In Italy, where more than two dozen CIA agents face criminal trial for the illegal "rendition" of terror suspects, tens of thousands of anti-Bush protesters took to the streets. At the Vatican, the pope took Bush to task over the Iraq war. Only in Albania did Bush receive a rapturous welcome though video footage led to speculation that in the celebration an Albanian Bush "fan" may have relieved the president of his watch.
White House spokesman Tony Snow denies that the president got fleeced by his admirers. But let's be honest: Even if Bush made it home with watch untouched, it's not clear that wild enthusiasm from the Albanian public is something he should feel pleased about.
After all, the last time the Albanians showed wild enthusiasm, it was for the fraudulent Ponzi schemes that nearly destroyed their national economy. In the mid-1990s, two-thirds of the Albanian population got suckered into investing in get-rich-quick "investment companies." Built on trickery and empty promises, the pyramid schemes finally collapsed, leaving a shattered economy, millions of betrayed citizens and a discredited government.
Kind of reminiscent of the Bush presidency, actually.
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