Reply #16: Look, We Have to Be Fair To Bush [View All]

His favorite book as a child, according to him, was "The Hungry Caterpillar" (we'll ignore the fact that the book wasn't published until he was in his twenties). That's a book where the caterpillar eats and eats and is always hungry and then eventually that leads to the very positive effect of the caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

But in the goat book, the goat was also eating and eating, but that just made the little girl's dad angry. So it was okay for the caterpillar, but when the goat does the same thing it was bad.

The inequality and injustice of it all.

He was obviously staring off into space as he contemplated the double standards that our society places on certain groups. Perhaps he likened Ken Lay to the caterpillar, and Martha Stewart to the goat. Maybe he was already imagining Saudi Arabia as the caterpillar, and Iraq as the goat.

In any event, I'm sure that "My Pet Goat" sparked a lot of very presidential introspection, and that sort of thing can't just be put on hold for some trifling thing our financial and military centers receiving devastating blows in the most massive terrorist attack in the US in history.