Bush the Liar
I wonder how many times George W. Bush can dupe the American (and Canadian) political rightwing before he rides off into the sunset?
This morning, I noticed this column by Richard Foot, prominently displayed on Bourque's cash-only news website:
CanadiansCryToo!CanadiansCryToo!
The column is an attempt to find Canadian solidarity (yet again - the column appears in the Ottawa Citizen, a CanWest newspaper) with the egregious Mr. Bush. In Exhibit #12307280182771 "Prime Ministers Cry, Too" of the CanWest ongoing Series "We Are Americans", Mr. Foot mentions Joe Clark wiping away a tear after a speech by his daughter, Catherine, as exhibit number one in "Prime Ministers cry, too".
I guess Mr. Foot didn't notice the more public wiping away of a tear during Trudeau's funeral by Joe Clark when Justin Trudeau told a fairly touching story about Trudeau admonishing him for saying something gratuitously mean about Mr. Clark - something to the effect of, "Don't say things like that about other people - it's not politic." - while Brian Mulroney danced a jig in his head and sang, "Haha! You're dead and I'm not! Haha!"
Anyway, the column is a response, I guess, to this:
"I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot," Mr. Bush is quoted as saying by author Robert Draper in Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, a new book that has Washington D.C., talking this week.
"I do a lot of crying in this job," Mr. Bush says. "I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count as president. I'll shed some tomorrow."
Okay. First of all, there's no such thing as God. And second of all, Bush is lying, anyway.
You'd think by now, the media would just report these utterances as, "Bush tells another whooper!" Or, "Bush bullshit just keeps coming!" Or, "Bush, Lie-ee Lieface - Again!".
Look, "folks" (because if you believe a single word that cretin utters, that's what you are - you're "folks" - Bush took ownership of "folks" straight after 9/11 and every suckerlipped pundit has been using that expression ever since - "folks" - which now means "easily duped, not too bright, took a shovel to the head one too many times", by the way) - if Bush said it, it's not true. He's a liar. If he cries at all - and I doubt very much he does - it would have nothing to do with his feelings for other people, it would have only to do with his feelings for himself.
Anyway, I'm not one of those people who connects dots to put together conspiracy theories. I don't need to. I've worked for politicians and I've known a few rich businessmen and I know, for sure, that it is indeed true what F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The rich are very different from you and me". We don't need to connect dots to know the facts and to know that rich guys, no matter their politics, have more in common with each other than they do with you and me.
For the Bush family, that "more in common" is oil. There's no need to connect existing dots together to know that George W. Bush has more in common with the Bin Ladens, for instance, than he does with any one of the American soldiers over fighting right now in Iraq. That's just a fact, Jack, and why many American politicians (who tend to wealth) don't like to dig too deep when criticizing the other side.
It took me a while to figure out, for instance, why Americans would have said that choosing between George W. Bush and Al Gore wasn't much of a choice. I honestly couldn't see what they meant until Al Gore and climate change and hedge funds and well... you get the picture. (And I am in no way saying that Al Gore is anything at all like George W. Bush. I'm just saying that Al Gore is another rich politician/businessman who has more in common with George W. Bush in terms of how he lives and who he knows - than he does with any bonafide environmentalist. Like, say... well... any one of us "folks" who live small, local, lives and don't travel in the rarefied circles of our political/business leaders.)
I guess what I'm saying is, at a certain level of wealth and power, nationality ceases to be a factor because it's ALL about money. Now, George W. Bush can try and pretend he's just "folks" - but he's not. He's not even very American. None of them are, really, or they'd be acting like Americans and eating at McDonalds and shopping at WalMart and sending their sons and daughters over to Iraq to "kick ass".
No conspiracy theory is necessary, no dot connecting is necessary. The facts are all right there to see.
So, why is the media discussing this "admission" by George W. Bush that he cries for his people when we absolutely know it is complete unadulterated bullshit? Americans aren't his people. His people are rich oil guys and the people connected to those rich oil guys from anywhere in the world where there are rich oil guys.
We know that. So why does the media insist on pretending we don't?
