Dumb and Dumberer

"Make no mistake, the bloke we see endlessly repeating the same catchphrases, from September 11 to the present, with evaporating conviction, is what he seems to be. The world's greatest power is led by someone ill equipped to run a doughnut franchise. The thought that this monumental mediocrity is the most powerful man on Earth will reassure Bush's Christian fundamentalist followers that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is utterly wrong. Descended from the apes? The US President hasn't descended at all."

Edit: typing error

Got this through email. No link anymore. If you want to read the whole article:

Go to <news.com.au>
Then click on "The Australian" on the left,
Then click on "Opinion" on the left (under Comment),
Then find Phillip Adams "Bushwhacked by White House Follies."
"Dumb and Dumberer" is under that.

Damn they are Dumb and Dumberer.

Sorry. There are many, many incredibly illustrative descriptions in this biting article, but the ending is a killer:

(after reading) "Bush at War" you’ll first feel disbelief, then despair, then a sort of slow-motion panic – as you realise why Washington is being as successful in the War Against Terror as previous administrations were in the War Against Drugs.

Now that is fucking scary.

direct link to article

if writers don't go a bit too far, but * has certainly not endeared himself to most of the world.

"There are, of course, his worrying referenced to God, to the power of prayer, to Evil. Change God to Allah and Bush's rhetorical style recalls that of bin Laden."

"...It’s not so much that Bush is mad or mendacious. The problem is that he’s dull-witted and easily manipulated. Trying to prove that the commander-in-chief is in command, Woodward instead provides a portrait of a puppet, a photo-op president, whose grasp of history, of geopolitical strategy, even of geography, is on a par with Homer Simpson’s...."

"...Dubya’s penchant for posturing is paraded, while his limited vocabulary is more than adequate to express the two ideas in his entire cranial capacity. His favourite word is "visceral" – and you get a gut feeling it’s appropriate to someone whose strategic vision can be summed up by "kick ass".

"....Bush is never convincing – but more significantly, he’s never convinced. When he lands on an aircraft carrier in a pilot’s costume, attempting to embody both civilian leader and military hero, he looks self-parodic. But even in less theatrical settings he looks implausible, incapable of filling his own shoes. The poor bloke is badly miscast – as uneasy as a young actor who knows he’s failing an audition. (At least Ronald Reagan could act.)"

"...The fly-on-the-wall accounts of strategic meetings as the US plans (if you can call stumbling around in a fog of confusion and conflicting motives a plan) to punish Afghanistan for the sins of al-Qa’ida couldn’t be more revelatory or depressing." link