Letters to the Editor
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Thank you, Mr. Keillor ...
... for that elegant piece. Excellent work.
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some people
how's the saying go, some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat, and still more when they become of that age when a move to Florida seems in order.
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I wanted to cry "Sacrilege!"...
...but as usual you make too much sense. And all the really angry people stopped reading you last month, if we are to believe them. The Four Points of Bushiness you delineated may also be referred to, on bad days, as Arrogant S.O.B.-ism.
Keep on keeping on....
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Not just General Motors
Apparently W did run his businesses on the same principles as his presidency, and you see where those businesses ended up.
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Old and selfish
Personally I can't wait for all the old selfish republicans to kick the bucket so they can't vote anymore. Unfortunately there are also a lot of selfish baby boomers to take their place at the voting booth. If they only knew that they were voting against their own self interest. They are cutting off their noses to spite their face and they are too dumb to recognize it. And the rest of us must suffer along with the ignorant fools. If another republican becomes president in 2008 we are doomed. Of course a lot of the GW voters are counting on the world ending and Jesus coming back. If that happens I think they will be in for a rude awakening because there has got to be a special place in Hell for anyone that voted for George W. Bush.
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Garrison Kiellor, Bush, and God
I have only one suggestion for Garrison Kiellor regarding the source of Bush's arrogant, righteous, and singular policies and opinions. Bush is a moron. He doesn't get that stuff from God, he gets it all from Karl Rove.
Rove is a snot-nosed College Republican trickster and bully posing as a White House official. We've got an overgrown college sophomore with a pernicious political "career" in charge of the political show and an insane VP/Pentagon monster running the bloody Mideast wars. That's why the entire mess has gone so haywire.
No matter who wins the next election, or anything the Democrats try to correct in the meantime, Cheney/Rove/Bush will likely not pay for their crimes. Cynical ? I don't think so. Except for a few of the Democrats in the House, the rest in the House and Senate (including the candidates for the presidency) have demonstrated that they are too weak or too preoccupied with and fearful of the political consequences of really prosecuting the White House gang.
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Better Late Than Never
Would it be worth pointing out to Anonymous that selfishness knows no age limits? Quite right, there are lots of selfish Boomers around, but there are an awful lot who are still trying to live up to the values that they espoused in the the '60s (now just a bit lighter on the sex 'n drugs 'n rock & roll, though). At the same time, I haven't noticed any shortage of self-absorbed snot nosed young twerps who aren't really experienced enough to be trusted to cross the street by themselves, but are sure they've got the world sussed. Nor is there a shortage of earnest kids in their teens and twenties who are trying to get it right and make a contribution.
I don't think that it's ever too late to see the error of your ways, and if it takes a disaster the size of Dim Son to wake people up, well I guess it's an ill wind that blows absolutely no good. Besides, if being wrongs damns you for all time, why bother to change?
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one more presidential point
Have plenty of eagers lackeys around ready to take the fall to preserve remotely plausible deniability.
Great article.
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Mo Fo Prez
I thought Mo was chosen to be our president after a run-off with eeney, meeney, and miney.
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Bush the Calvinist
Nice article. One point of disagreement: President Bush is a firm Calvinist. However, Bush presumes that the Calvin in question is from “Calvin and Hobbes” fame. Thus Bush’s theology, “if you don't remember it, you're not responsible for it”, etc. makes perfect sense.
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beauty is in the eye of the beholden
mr. bush appears to himself as annointed. he assumes we look at him as the second or third coming depending if you count his father or not.
he doesn't give a rat's ass if we see him through the same rose colored glasses.
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Bush
This
Undefendable
Loser
Insists on
Persecution
Great work again Senior Toad.
Anyone listening to Biden?
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Beautiful
Total depravity? wow. we went to war . we guzzle oil. we kill. we send brownies to jail. we pray to theft g-d. we spell dog backwards. we tax the working poor to finance a war against them too...whoop, I better just say, 'beautiful.'
years ago when I started telling people to listen to Garrison Keillor, people said I was nuts. The Current Occupant is a empty shell, worst than a rotten peanut. Mr. Keillor wrote a beautiful redeeming 'piece' of non-Calvinist mythical cake. No false security, yep. Lost/Saved, a choice.
Once 'one' person chooses to be lost, they can choose, to stay in dark delusion. A beautiful expression, you G.K. good nut. Thanks. hope. A light at the tip of a candle, shedding a bright light along our Way. a glimmer of a hearty, gracias.
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Elegant and Clever
If you ran a business on those principles, you'd be in big trouble. Just look at General Motors.
Elegant and well said, Mr Keillor. I have one minor quibble. We do have evidence that the "BUSH" doctrine was in fact employed during his Texas oil days. The same incompetence displayed by this administration, clearly played a role in his failures in the oil business. Had it not been for "FOB" (Friends of Bush (Daddy Bush, that is) the Current Occupant would have been in deep "doo doo".
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Calvinism
While Mr. Keillor does a nice job of associating Bush with an extreme stereotype of Calvinism, he's lacking on "nuance." Just like our president. Although I must say I am impressed that he knows what TULIP stands for.
First, Calvinists have not typically used their theology as an excuse to do whatever they want. Quite the contrary, really.
Second, it should be pointed out that it is the "thank-you-Jesus-for-making-me-beautiful ... megachurches" who buy into this whole nonsense of Bush being appointed by God. The churches with a Calvinist background, Presbyterians (Scottish) and Reformed (Dutch) are opposed to many of this president's policies and rhetoric. From what I can tell the Presbyterians more-so, but neither group would be considered "loyal Bushies."
So, this smear on Calvinists is no more relevant than using a "Bush on a Crusade" mantra to smear modern day Catholics.