President Pathetic

I do not ordinarily watch President Pathetic as he babbles on endlessly about things he obviously knows little about. Unfortunately, this morning, I found myself in a situation where I could not help but witness part of his Press Conference. I found it excruciatingly embarrassing. I don't know why they have suddently decided to let him host Press Conferences where he can be asked real questions. I guess it must be a measure of Republican desperation. In any case, it truly was pathetic. Watching him smirk and smile completely inappropriately is bad enough. But actually listening to his unceasing babble is much worse. It is impossible to review the conference here in any detail. Just let me give you a couple of examples. He took a question from Helen Thomas for the first time in the last three or four years. She asked him, as she has wanted to all this time, "why did you go to war in Iraq?" This elicited a rambling non-answer that among other things included the blatant lie that Sadam had resisted inspectors. There was no follow up. Everyone realized it would be hopeless. Then when asked about the monumental 8.9 trillion dollar deficit Bush blamed it on Social Security and Medicaid "because the President has no control over those espenses." No mention of his obscene tax breaks for the filthy rich. And even much more importantly, no mention of the obscene defense budget (larger than all the rest of the world combined) which does virtually nothing to defend us from terrorism but continues to fill the coffers of his defense industry and oil company buddies. I could go on but what is the point. The Bush/Cheney administration is nothing more than a criminal enterprise designed to keep the price of oil as high as possible and insure record profits for those involved. The more Iraqi oil that is kept off the market the higher the profits. It's very simple. Want to bet the Carlyle group isn't one of the prime beneficiaries?

Strange things are being done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for oil. Not a single virgin is to be left unravished, not an oil company executive left behind, not a single truth ever to be told.

Often the sin is itself more forgiveable than the stupidity that led to it. Morialekafa. Here and now.