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Edited on Sun Jun-10-07 09:45 AM by UTUSN
Remember Campaign 2000, when "gravitas" or the lack thereof in Shrub was the buzzword? Little did we think what an actual pall his lack would cast on his own and the U.S.'s leadership.
Since Shrub only has one more G8 to go, there probably won't be time to cancel them just to let him have a fratboy farewell. Shrub's legacy might well be that he has destroyed more institutions previously thought to be sacrosanct than anybody else, truly revolutionary: Treaties (Kyotyo). The United Nations -- naming PURPOSELY HOSTILE U.S. ambassadors there, and cynically using it as a shell game for the opposite of its core value, for unprovoked war. The Geneva Conventions FOR ZEUS's SAKE!!1
His string-pullers have engineered more free passes for him since RAYGUN. From the outset, comedians at the Correspondents Dinner were intimidated against joking about him. Then HIS own embarrassing clowning ("I'm looking for the WMD") has brought calls for ending that and the other press burlesque shows. Not like when sL-IMUS was free to draw and quarter the CLINTONs. Really, it's not farfetched to think that G8 leaders might say, "Let's not do this anymore, at least while Shrub is there. If the Unwashed see these are just in-your-face PARTIES for Caligula-types, it's ALL OVER for all of us." The Wizard's curtain and all that.
So, the pictures coming from the G8 yearly have Shrub groping a head of state, slouching and apparently boozing it up, flaunting breaches of protocol (otherwise known as common courtesy), making faces, and just plain showing what a LACK OF RESPECT he has for anything and anybody.
He has opened our eyes. We used to think that "leadership", by individuals and countries, had gravitas and respect as NECESSARY.
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