Presidential Auction 2004

The Chosen One From Jesus is my philosopher to God is my co-pilot, George Bush has been nothing if not ghoulishly entertaining. Far more talented writers than I have gone completely berserk while attempting to explain what makes Bush tick. It's simple, really. The answer is Nothing. Nothing makes him tick. That's why he's the perfect foil for the warhawks and religious zealots. Bush is a swaggering, paranoid, hubristic bully, consumed by an irrational sense of his own worth. Just your normal, run-of-the-mill Texas good ol' boy Republican -- with money. After carousing, falling down drunk, and failing at every business enterprise his daddy set up for him -- at the tender age of 40, Bush was "born again" and became the Lord's own most visible high-stepping 12-stepper. Fourteen years later, he was President of the United States. In his defense, I have to say Bush is acting no differently than any other 14-year-old spoiled bully would be expected to act under the same circumstances... And he's a Believer. Bush believes what they tell him he believes, such as he was chosen by God to lead the Christians in a righteous war against Islam. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia even blames God for his own deadly vote that thwarted democracy in 2000 and seized power from the people. Believing that Bush is serving by divine appointment, Scalia wrote in a May 2002 article, God's Justice and Ours that the government has a higher authority granted to it by God. He said unequivocally, "Government carries the sword as the minister of God, to execute wrath upon the evildoer..." ...Americans who look at Bush and see either compassion or morality are severely suffering from optical delusion. This is a man who sets himself up as a purveyor of truth and knowledge, but who sees "thugs and killers, brutal dictators and barbarians" behind every tree, and is committed to not let "terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile." This is a man who declared war upon Islam --calling it a "crusade" -- from the pulpit of the National Cathedral rather than the Oval Office. This is a man who enjoys what he is doing in God's name, and who promises that he will not stop killing until the entire world is "safe." The world cringes as George Bush, militant neocons and the completely mad religious right steer the Bush Ship of State toward the jagged shoals. God has left the building.

The author of the above, Sheila Samples, is an Oklahoma freelance writer, a former US Army Public Information Officer, and Axis of Logic contributing editor. She has nailed Double-face's character on the head. A mean, arrogant, willfully ignorant man whose emotional/mental development was arrested in adolescence. There is an accepted position within Alcoholics Anonymous that an alcoholic's development is arrested at whatever stage he or she succumbs to the disease. Of course there are other reasons for arrested development, but it seems logical to expect that Dumbya's alcoholism was a major factor. I haven't seen any information on what age he began drinking, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was as a young teen. AA-ers recognize that, without some program to help them start their development again, they would remain at the arrested stage. Dumbya, of course, has not seen the need for any such thing. Another effect of ignorant arrogance. And not surprising from someone whose development came to a halt in the juvenile stage.

Read Sheila's full article here: Laughter of the Gods

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.