Some readers of this blog may have been able to detect a certain lack of enthusiasm here for the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For the newer reader, let me just state that George W. Bush is hands down the worst President of my lifetime and (I hope) the worst with which we are ever cursed by God.
I just sat through nearly two uninterrupted hours of The Shrub fielding the most candy-ass of softball questions from an “Invitation Only” audience at Kansas State University. Supposedly there were 9000 of these corn-fed sheep in attendance and somehow the closest they got to actually challenging Kid 5 to 4 on his multitudinous perfidies was a dull-sounding girl asking how cutting 12.5 billion from the federal student loan program was going to help students.
Two questions from a non-sheep:
1. In what meaningful way is a pre-screened audience different from having pre-screened questions?
2. Why in the name of Christ are all major news networks simply broadcasting two hours of propaganda without at least having informed professionals noting the falsehood of Bush’s claims as he reels them off?
The way Bush seems to be waging his War on Rational Thought is through the so-far successful method of hurling so much deliberately false and misleading information at the Sheep that they are overwhelmed. Anyone can refute a paragraph or two of Bushian nonsense.
However after two continuous hours of lies, damnable lies, and statistics the mind is numb from the constant barrage of anti-truth.
We shut down. We turn to lost whales and Super Bowl picks. And we wonder if our country will ever be decent again.
Pennsylvania votes today to see if our next President is a woman or a second-generation, half-black son of an immigrant. This is reason for pride. At last.