Letters to the Editor
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Seeing Bush objectively
Two months before Allen "claim[ed] that the revelations of Bush's lawbreaking would be politically beneficial for Bush, as it will 'turn out to offer a foothold' for Bush to recover from his declining approval ratings," Cenk Uygur wrote the following on the Huffington Post. Though Uybur was wrong on one point--this was a couple of months after Katrina, and at the time it seemed like the MSM might be coming around--the entire piece is worth a re-read at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/bushs-approval-ratings_b_10291.html.
Bush isn’t going to make a comeback. He’s fallen and he can’t get up.
A comeback presupposes substance and ability. A worthy character who has suffered some setbacks, bad luck or simple human mistakes can make a comeback because he has it in him. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, Michael Jordan, the Boston Red Sox can mount comebacks. The Arizona Cardinals are not making a comeback this season. They don’t have the team and the ability to straighten out what has gone wrong. They will continue to lose until the end of the season.
George Bush is the Arizona Cardinals. His team is terrible and he refuses to change any of his players. He doesn’t have the personality suited for making necessary changes. Quickly adjusting to changing circumstances is not his forte, stubbornness is. Even if he had the inclination to make a change, he doesn’t have the ability. He simply doesn’t know what the hell he is doing.
We’ve been playing most of his speeches and press conferences on our radio show for the last three years. After having listened to him talk about the issues for all that time, there is no polite way to put this – the man is an imbecile.
He is a simpleton who does not grasp complicated circumstances. As sectarian strife between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds is ripping Iraq apart, he has never once mentioned the competing claims of those groups and explained how they affect our mission in Iraq. There is a good reason for that – he can’t.