Reply #21: God bless both of you. [View All]

I've long harbored the suspicion that Bush is not hated so much for his policies, but because he himself is so unfathomably reprehensible. Had this chest-thumping crusader possessed a scintilla of the charm of the silver-tongued sophisticate you so recently denounced, he might have had easier sailing (certainly at the U.N.). To his misfortune, Bush is bereft of this magnetism. All you need to know about his character can be seen in those two beady eyes of his. The malignant sociopath. Truly, he's the sort of creature you'd find in Graves's "I, Claudius" masterworks. Our own little Nero.

Of course, Nero didn't exist in a vacuum. He had some very, very interesting antecedents. Crafty men, who couldn't wash the blood from their hands if they were given a thousand years to do so. Men like Clinton.

Let it be said that there were at least two students who opted to side not with a statist, but with his victims.

With those abandoned to torment and death in Iraq, all in the name of regime change.

With those grieving parents, whose deformed babies will bear the mark of the depleted uranium we left in the soil of Yugoslavia.

With those dismembered children, who might have been spared had Clinton not been so reticent in supporting the anti-land mine treaties.

With those destitute single mothers, who were thrown off the rolls by way of Welfare Deform, and plunged into the happy world of slave-wage labor.

With those non-violent offenders, who rot in prison cells because of certain draconian crime bills.


You both have my admiration: I was a bit older before I came to recognize Big Dawg as the most agreeable Republican president this country's ever endured.