Incurious George

 

Of all the complaints against The Bush Boy -- there are a lot of them and most of them are justified -- the most significant perhaps deals not with a particularly policy crime, but a flaw in the man’s character. It’s the fact that he lacks curiosity. He doesn’t even seem interested in the work of being President of the United States.

I’ve commented previously about his watching football games on television. Not that millions of men don’t also do it; a billion people watch soccer games. The issue is that when you’re the leader of the free world, you have a lot of power, both by legal authority and the bully pulpit. And there are plenty of situations, still, which would benefit from serious leadership.

Wouldn’t it be grand to have a president who would be excited at the possibility of setting foreign policy for 200 other countries? How ‘bout trying to fix our health care system, rebuild our educational system so it is number one again, reduce violence in America, increase national security?

It would be very different from an all-hat-no-cattle flyboy who spends a huge part of his term on vacation, and much of the rest of the time fund-raising and campaigning. He seems to have no interest at all in making us a brighter, healthier, stronger country. He has no apparent desire to write his name into the history books under the heading of statesman.

That may explain, concomitantly, why so many people still support Bush. They’re not curious either. They’re the Limbaugh listeners...too limited to realize how foolish they sound calling themselves ditto-heads. They probably don’t realize that ditto and idiot contain the same letters.

An incurious nature isn’t George Bush’s only failing. He lacks integrity. He’s willing to lie through his teeth, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars smearing his opponent, and the election process itself. But imagine what might have been possible had he considered what was possible.

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

 

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