You know you can't get enough of me bitching about the Prez. And as I sit here watching the live feed of Bush's press conference a few complaints come to mind...
- Why is no one asking this guy any difficult questions?
- Why are they (the press corps) allowing him to turn each question, regardless of content, into a pulpit for him to scare the hell out of us. "Are you worried about inflation's impact to the economy?" "Well, uhh, nice scarf, I like your scarf...that's not a scarf, uhh, what do you call that?" "A tie." "Right, yeah, uh, y'know, Al Qaeda is real, the Democrats will lead us down a dangerous path, pulling out of Iraq is dangerous so we must stay the course. Next question."
- Where does he get off talking to us like we're 5 years old - "Iraq is a dangerous place!", "This work is hard! It's hot in Iraq (seriously)": We know that you dumbfuck, WE read the papers, do you?
- Why must he break out that smug and satisfied crooked grin of his everytime he says something that he thinks is "profound" (like, for example, "It's hot in Iraq")?
If the best you can do, when asked about the current situation in Iraq and our "progress" there is to crow about having captured Sadam Hussein, you have failed.
Here's a question for the American Public, and especially for the 30% or so that still approve of the work this douchebag is doing: If you follow the Prez, you will hear one word used more than any other. The word is "terror" (or as he says "tuurr"). The purpose in using this word over and over and over is to keep you terrified, to keep you so shaking in your boots and shitting in your pants by the rest of the world who hate us that you will keep bending over and sticking your ass in the face of the Republican party asking to have more of their bullshit shoved up there.
My question for you is this - Why does the rest of the world hate us (or at the least, dislike us and mock us)? Why? Do they really "hate our freedom"? Are they really just irrational and crazy Islamic zealots worshipping the wrong God? What about Venezuela? They've got a big beef with us. Or North Korea, or even Canada whose issues with us are far less rancorous, but no less real? Why? Why does the U.S. have, by far, the largest military force on the planet? Why does HALF of the Federal budget go to supporting and building that military? Why do we have so many enemies?
I think you owe it to yourself to get a solid answer to that and I doubt that the answer is anything that the Adminstration is telling you. Find out what we've done to piss off everyone else.
(exhale)
Tomorrow afternoon I am being flown to Las Vegas for a job interview. I have passed the phone interview and the interview with the hiring manager and now have to face the VP and a panel of people. The job is, of course, in Seattle, but the headquarters for the company are in Las Vegas which is why I am being flown there. The coolest part of all of this (in my eyes at least) is that I am flying First Class which will be a new experience for me. The least cool part is that I arrive back in Seattle at like 11 PM Friday night and have to wake up at 6 for a 100 mile bike ride I've already paid and signed up for. So wish me luck on a few different levels.
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- Why is no one asking this guy any difficult questions?
- Why are they (the press corps) allowing him to turn each question, regardless of content, into a pulpit for him to scare the hell out of us. "Are you worried about inflation's impact to the economy?" "Well, uhh, nice scarf, I like your scarf...that's not a scarf, uhh, what do you call that?" "A tie." "Right, yeah, uh, y'know, Al Qaeda is real, the Democrats will lead us down a dangerous path, pulling out of Iraq is dangerous so we must stay the course. Next question."
- Where does he get off talking to us like we're 5 years old - "Iraq is a dangerous place!", "This work is hard! It's hot in Iraq (seriously)": We know that you dumbfuck, WE read the papers, do you?
- Why must he break out that smug and satisfied crooked grin of his everytime he says something that he thinks is "profound" (like, for example, "It's hot in Iraq")?
If the best you can do, when asked about the current situation in Iraq and our "progress" there is to crow about having captured Sadam Hussein, you have failed.
Here's a question for the American Public, and especially for the 30% or so that still approve of the work this douchebag is doing: If you follow the Prez, you will hear one word used more than any other. The word is "terror" (or as he says "tuurr"). The purpose in using this word over and over and over is to keep you terrified, to keep you so shaking in your boots and shitting in your pants by the rest of the world who hate us that you will keep bending over and sticking your ass in the face of the Republican party asking to have more of their bullshit shoved up there.
My question for you is this - Why does the rest of the world hate us (or at the least, dislike us and mock us)? Why? Do they really "hate our freedom"? Are they really just irrational and crazy Islamic zealots worshipping the wrong God? What about Venezuela? They've got a big beef with us. Or North Korea, or even Canada whose issues with us are far less rancorous, but no less real? Why? Why does the U.S. have, by far, the largest military force on the planet? Why does HALF of the Federal budget go to supporting and building that military? Why do we have so many enemies?
I think you owe it to yourself to get a solid answer to that and I doubt that the answer is anything that the Adminstration is telling you. Find out what we've done to piss off everyone else.
(exhale)
Tomorrow afternoon I am being flown to Las Vegas for a job interview. I have passed the phone interview and the interview with the hiring manager and now have to face the VP and a panel of people. The job is, of course, in Seattle, but the headquarters for the company are in Las Vegas which is why I am being flown there. The coolest part of all of this (in my eyes at least) is that I am flying First Class which will be a new experience for me. The least cool part is that I arrive back in Seattle at like 11 PM Friday night and have to wake up at 6 for a 100 mile bike ride I've already paid and signed up for. So wish me luck on a few different levels.
http://paniconthestreets.blogspot.com