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veracity Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 10:11 AM
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Cirque de Bush at Annapolis!
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Step Right Up, It's Time to Send in the Clowns!

Geez, I do hope that at least they have lots of music and cotton candy and crackerjacks. That’s about all they’ll have to offer, if the performance is not to be a total waste of time.. The Bush Cirque at Annapolis is up and running and we’re all invited to watch the show. So now, here they go, performing all the tricks they’ve practiced for years. Hurry and get your tickets to watch the nonsense begin.

It’s the Bushco, last-minute, save-your-legacy photo op: after seven years, a make believe moment meant to assure the world that he gives a damn about peace in the Middle East. It’s an absolute circus – a farcical conference of forty nations that looks real and looks sincere and is so damned foolish as to be laughable. But, then again, it might look good in the Bush Library when this tragic term is over, so go for it. Get the Israelis and the Arab envoys on their individual trapezes and let them swing away. What fun, what nonsense, but then again, what great PR and what super headlines. But, in reality, it’s all a futile exercise in total bullshit.

Here’s the rub: all of the acrobats are swinging through the air, determined never, ever to catch one another in mid flight...

FULL ARTICLE: http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=672
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 05:34 PM
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1. the Cirque de So Lame! (n/t)
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