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How they stick in your throat.
It's got to be hard to be Bush right now. Firstly, being president puts you in a continual spotlight, where the public watches your every move, ready to throw rotten tomatoes at the slightest foible or slipup. However, i can't remember a president as equally divided upon by the nation as bush since the days of Nixon. He doesn't have a middle ground with most of the populace. Half the nation seems to admire his strength and courage, his "never back down" attitude, and his willingness to push a campaign that does *not* have full support of the country. The other half of the population reviles and despises the man. The have a burning hatred for his rampant warmongering, for the way he plowed medicare into a massive almost irrecoverable deficit, his benefits for the wealthy, and his general monkeyish appearance and speech. There isn't a whole lot of middle gorund, and he stands in comparison to the previous presidents as quite a divided figure. Clinton was the collegiate pimp-whore who could never make sense under stress and cross-examination, but as a president, he was not utterly reviled by half the nation as a whole. Sure, we poked fun at his libidinous lifestyle, his oversized chin, and his controlling b***h-sow of a wife, but these were the standard parody and silly gestures of the nation that seems to be a defacto standard. Reagan, Bush Sr., Ford.. These men do not inspire the same level of absolute adoration or utter revulsion. WE do not see them as heralds of the new age, or heralds of the apocalypse, but as figureheads for a government that, in some way, represented our nation. There's a lot of gray area with previous candidates, and yet we'll find slim pickings when it comes to public indecisiveness regarding Bush.
Personally, I think he looks and acts like a monkey, and acts with a darwinian sense of "My tree, My bannana, My mate." He lives off a crude series of impulses and longs to complete his fathers conquest. I'm sure he has dreams of a global USA, with "bushland" somewhere in the middle. It probably has a waterpark. His campaign seems founded upon an "america for americans everywhere" theme, with no higher appeal other than TV and time for a b*****b on friday night, while halfway across the world we're trying out new weapons against people his father didn't like.
Kerry was the only one who could stop him from keeping power all to himself, but it was a self-cannibalizing campaign that was ultimately too weak to win. The bush campaign took potshots from the rafters, calling him a "Flip-flopper", and basically bastardizing the right to change an opinion. They didn't even really have to fire their opening volley by slapping us with photos of vietnam protests. It was clear from the debates that while Bush was obviously the weaker, dumber beast, he didn't have anything to worry about. The kerry campaign was eating itself alive.
Anyways, that's all borderline archaic political notes, spurred from the slumber of the far back caves of my brain after seeing the 700th flash game with the principle of abusing a Bush avatar. Imagine waking up every day, and knowing that the entire world knows your name, and while half the population likes you, the rest think you're an ignorant, rich-b***h ******** and they will publically make a mockery of you in any and all available media. I mean, after all, we do have access to this giant series of "tubes" called the internet. It's the only place with slightly less social engineering and bullshit-spwewing crap than television. We used to have voices for radio, faces for TV. I'm beginning to wonder what the final stages of "Internet pretty" will look like. Somehow, I don't think it's going to rely on how intelligent you are, or how reasonable your views may be, or even how good and angry you can get. It might just all come down to who has the best meme, and who's got the highest hits per page.
Anyways, on other subjects; look for an update to Carcinoma Angel soon, my writing organs are dragging themselves out of preservation and itching to be used once more, like the mighty meat clusters they are. As far as podcasts go.. I'm on haiatus for now. You'll have to go back to good old fashioned reading until I decide whether or not I want to continue doing them. It was an interesting venture, although lately I've been feeling that my words are much better read, and not heard.
 Twistex · Mon Aug 07, 2006 @ 10:59am · 1 Comments |
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