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I would be much more impressed with Joe's integrity, intellect, and patriotism if he were demanding consequences for Bush's "idiocy," instead of simply viewing it as a harmless quirk. I, too, think that Bush is an idiot, a dickless frat boy who is playing at being a president on TV. When left to his own goofy devices, we have him choosing goats over terrorists, vacations over duty, Meirs & Brown over - well, just about anyone else, really.
Yet when handled effectively, he's also a photogenic mouthpiece for corporate barons and warmongers (oops, I repeat myself) and the voice of absolute wealth and power. He has no idea what a nation is, much less how to lead one. He has never in his life held a job he got for himself. He cannot even recognize a complexity, much less parse one. And yet the Joes & Anns & Bills & Rushes proudly deemed him more than fit for office. Twice. Now Joe is rethinking his former devotion. If Joe is serious, and not simply another of those hypocrites he so smugly derides, he must take this to its logical conclusion.
It's not a quirk to be an idiot president. George II is not just a joke. He is a criminal. If Joe really thinks George is unfit for office, he should be agitating to get him out, as well as calling for his administration's accountability. Not just because omigosh he's not really a fiscal conservative, or because he's using his office gasp illegally and unconstitutionally, or because he sold our energy policies hee hee to the highest bidders, or nudge nudge wink wink is stacking our judiciary with one trick ponies, or has chosen to abandon our smirk citizens in the Katrina disaster. He also decided to kill 2,600 Americans and over 40,000 Iraqis in a counterfeit war, and his death toll continues to rise.
Bush is worse than incompetent: he's a traitor and a mass murderer. Or would reality hurt Joe's ratings?
