Keith Hudson wrote:
>
> Almost every other sentence that Bush utters in current speeches -- "We are
> strong", "We will overcome", "We will destroy our enemies" -- strike me as
> "protesting too much", betraying some deeper uncertainty about the values
> of American society generally.
[snip]
I agree.
There may be some possibility that the way he got himself
elected (the reflexive verb form is pretty accurate here,
as I have previously cited:
On Dec. 12, the United States
Supreme Court, by a vote of 5 to 4 along
partisan lines, stopped all further
recounts and thereby elected George W.
Bush the 43rd President of The United
States. Associate Justice Antonin
Scalia said that a continued vote
recount threatened "irreparable harm to the
petitioner [i.e., George W. Bush],
and to the country, by casting a cloud
upon what he claims to be the legitimacy
of his election." ("The Making of
the President, 2000". by Garry Wills,
NYT Book Review, 01Apr01, p.9)
I haven't yet found the right word to describe what
Bush's mouth emits. The barking of prep school
male cheer leaders with megaphones (paper cone
type, not electric amplifiers, back from when
both of "us" were in prep school) comes close.
Every sentence he emits seems both like
a challenge and also like a plea for reassurance:
I *am* the President! (Aren't I?)
I cannot recall any nation with a Chief Executive
who so often seemed to close to "cracking". Bush
may yet really blow it bad. Hopefully his
"handlers" have thorazine in their supply cabinet.
I am not just being "funny" here. I think
this may be a troubled man.
Now I will be a bit poetic: A loose cannon
on the deck of the ship of state, the Captain,
not of any Pequod, but of the
U.S.S. Narrenschiff
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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