Vice President Bush

 

A lotta folks probably don’t remember five years ago the gee-willickers tone of George Bush’s announcement that he’d decided to go with Dick Cheney to be his vice president. Cheney had been in charge of his vice presidential selection committee and couldn’t find anyone. It was a ridiculous charade albeit well-designed.

So Cheney has been running this country for the past four years with The Bush Boy as his figurehead. It was never more evident than during the press conference last summer when the president of the United States stumbled with fractured coherence through a series of questions that the vice president could have handled much better since he had all the answers because our national policies are his.

So it’s appropriate one might suppose that Bush’s approval ratings should remain relatively high while the public is giving his policies increasingly negative marks. Viscerally, at least, a majority of the American people seem to like George Bush, and probably subconsciously recognize that he has little to do with the actual running of the government; he’s the spokesman-in-chief, and makes for a reasonably affable mouthpiece.

They like him as long as they can forget that Bush prevaricates like Pinocchio on a bender. They also must overlook all the policies that are being prosecuted in his name that have set back the environmental clock thirty years, driven the deficits and national debt through the roof, and earned us an odious mantle of disrepute with most of the people with whom we share this planet.

I guess this is who we Americans are as a people that we so often are bent over backwards by sincerity without examining the facts behind the tone. It’s fine to be hail-fellow-well-met but it’s not enough when that person leads a nation that is sending its people into war on a country thousands of miles from its shores. Not enough by any measure of civil decency.

Which is why we have to vote both these deceivers out of power.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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