And then there’s catastrophically insane, talks to God, George W. Bush aka boy emperor delusional. From Dan Froomkin in today’s Washington Post:
"I can predict that the historians will say that George W. Bush recognized the threats of the 21st century, clearly defined them, and had great faith in the capacity of liberty to transform hopelessness to hope, and laid the foundation for peace by making some awfully difficult decisions," Bush told Yonit Levi of Israel's Channel 2 News. Bush held several interviews with Middle Eastern journalists last week in anticipation of his trip to the region, which starts tomorrow.
"When he needed to be tough, he acted strong, and when he needed to have vision he understood the power of freedom to be transformative," Bush said of himself to Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
As for the people of the Middle East, Bush told Hisham Bourar of al-Hurra Television: "I would hope that they would say President Bush respects my religion and has great love for the human -- human being, and believes in human dignity."
Wow. I mean really, just ... wow.
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And I predict that E in MD will laugh his ass off at this nonsense.
"has great love for the human -- human [being]"
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KEvron
Whoa.
*backs away slowly*
He's like a drunken frat-boy waxing philosophically about having given a beggar a coin, forgetting that he also set the begar on fire.
This one's for ti-guy:
Lyndon Johnson's press secretary George Reedy wrote a book thirty or forty years ago, in which he said that the principle weakness of the presidency is that no one is willing to tell the president things he doesn't want to hear. Every job in the White House, Reedy said, depends on a personal relationship with the president. There is no job security.
LBJ made an effort to hear what he didn't an effort to hear; Dear Leader directly and immediately punishes people who tell him what he doesn't want to hear. Vladimir Vladimirovich played the ultimate game with Dear Leader: he walked into his first meeting with Dear Leader wearing a cross in his lapel, talking like a Jesus-freak. We all know where that went.
On the other hand, you have an institutional setting where Stephen has to sit once a week and listen to people telling him what he doesn't want to hear. Yet Glorious Leader seems as impervious to off-message conversation as Dear Leader. So who's on top of this argument?
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