What does Bush inherit?

If you've not had a chance to see a movie called "Inherit the Wind", starring Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly (yes, he can act too!), it's worth a look.

Not just to get a glimpse of how our world once was, but foreshadowing of where the world may well be heading; at least in Kansas.

Men of God have long been considered in the earlier centuries as people to be revered, to be respected and acknowledged as gifted, as knowing more than their fellow man. Men who claimed to speak directly to God were considered superior, above all others, special, priviledged, or a gaggle of other things. John Smith long, long ago was respected and looked upon with awe, because he had the temerity to damn our enternal souls to hell for touching our wangs or our hoo-hahs.

How the times have changed. If a man dares to speak the word of God these days, it is best if he does it in a church, surrounded by his congregation. And if he claims to have actually TALKED to God, people seem uneasy, a little riled, perhaps even amused. They allow him his awesome adventure, but you can be assured that once the man is out of sight, he is ridiculed like the village idiot.

Do you ever wonder why Dr. James Dobson or Pat Robertson still have a voice, and such a strong following? Simple. They are men of God with a large congregation. They teach the word of God, they revel in his glory, and oh yes, they damn anyone who dares to think likewise.

Why does Bush think HE'S a man of God? He claims he's talked with God a lot, that the almighty set him on the right path, to lead the nation to peace and tranquility. Ever wonder, if God has SUCH a liking of Bush, and seems to even FAVOR him -- why is Bush such a total fuck-up?

Let's face it! Most of the country can't stand this man. No matter WHAT he tries, he faces strong opposition. The whole world fears him because of his idiocy. He's failed at everything he's ever done in his life. Sure, he became president, and not many people can do that in their lives. But then, not many people are like Bush. The simpleton of Connecticutt; the displaced, mis-read Texas cowboy-wannabe. The childish boy who refuses to grow up, to accept defeat, to accept the fact he might be dead wrong about some things. Who's had an addiction to cocaine, and an ongoing battle with alcohol. Who has single-handedly caused the deaths of at least 75,000 innocent people, by engaging war illegally in a country that had done us no harm.

Oh yes, hail God's chosen one. Hail a true man of God.

Are you listening, Kansas? Your need to live in the past is going to destroy your future. God doesn't want you to hate, or disrespect, or judge. God wants you to LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. If God truly allows you degenerates to live on this little blue ball, get one thing through those thick, fucking-stupid heads of yours: GOD ALLOWS US ALL TO LIVE HERE. PERIOD.

No matter if they believe in God, or evolution.

...TheScribes...

Bush Defined: Must Read!

From Vanity Fair, January 6, 2007: Graydon Carter talks about Gail Sheehy's book "The Accidental Candidate".

Ladies and gentlemen -- This is Bush.
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"I was reminded of these traits when I reread "The Accidental Candidate," Gail Sheehy's prescient portrait of the future president, published in these pages in October 2000. A sampling:

"When Barbara Bush took her 13-year-old son and his best friend, Doug Hannah, to play golf at her Houston club, George would start cursing if he didn't tee off well. His mother would tell him to quit it. By the third or fourth hole he would be yelling "Fuck this!" until he had ensured that his mother would send him to the car.

"It fit his needs," saps Hannah. "He couldn't lose." Once, after his mother banished him from the golf course, she turned to Hannah and declared, "That boy is going to have optical rectosis!" What did that mean? 'She said. A shitty outlook on life!"

Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules -- or make his opponent play until he can beat him. "If you were playing basketball and you were playing to 11 and he was down, you went to 15," says Hannah, now a Dallas insurance executive, "If he wasn't winning, he would quit. He would Just walk off. It's what we called Bush Effort: If I don't like the game, I take my ball and go home. Very few people can get away with that..."

Another fast friend, Roland Betts, acknowledges that it is the same in tennis. In November 1992, Bush and Betts were in Santa Fe to host a dinner party, but they had just enough time for one set of doubles. The former Yale classmates were opposite sides of the net. "There was only one problem -- my side won the first set," recalls Betts.

"0.K., then we're going two out of three," Bush decreed. Bush's side takes the next set. But Betts's side is winning the third set when it starts to snow. Hard, fat flakes. The catering truck pulls up. But Bush wont let anybody quit.

"He's pissed, George runs his mouth constantly." says Betts indulgently. "He's making fun of your last shot, mocking you, needling you, goading you — he never shuts up!"

They continued to play tennis through a driving snowstorm.

It is something of an in-joke with Bush's friends and family. "In reality we all know who won. But George wants to go farther to see what happens," says an old family friend, venture capitalist and former MGM chairman Louis "Bo" Polk Jr. "George would say, 'Play that one over,' or 'I wasn't quite ready.' The overtimes are what's fun, so you make your own. When you go that extra mile or that extra point... you go to a whole new level."
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And that's our president in a nutshell. A sniveling, whining, bratty boy who doesn't know the meaning of the word "futility", nor does he know how to lose graciously. Bush's recent comments about not caring what the country thinks just solidifies it.

Bush is just trying a different tactic to try to get a different outcome in Iraq. One where HE is the winner, not the insurgency.

Can you just see him screaming to the Pentagon, "I don't like how the war is going, let's do over! I wasn't ready!"?

Here, George. Play with some toy soldiers. Maybe THEN you can win.

Playing with the lives of innocent human beings because you want a "do-over" isn't normal.

It borders on pure insanity.

__The Scribes__