Delusional, you bet

John Edwards said today that Bush's speech bordered on the delusional. I don't think it bordered on the delusional at all, it was completely delusional. If telling us day after day that progress is being made and that we are going to "win," in direct contradiction to what we know from others who have been investigating the situation, is not delusional, what is? As far as I know the only people who think Bush is not delusional might be McCain and Cheney (but even Cheney probably knows Bush is delusional but doesn't care as it suits his purposes). Boehner and a few other hard-core Republicans still stick with Bush but they must be aware he is delusional. The 29% of people who still claim to support Bush are themselves so delusional they don't recognize it in Bush himself. I don't like to believe that 29% of my fellow citizens are mentally unbalanced but how else do you account for this? Of course there are those like my mother-in-law who would vote for Count Dracula if he were the Republican candidate. She doesn't follow the news (any news), knows nothing whatsoever of contemporary politics, but always votes Republican because she and her now deceased husband always did. I don't regard her as mentally unbalanced, just so disinterested and ignorant she probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. No doubt there are many others just like her.

What do you do when one of the candidates that might otherwise be appealing comes out with a statement so incredibly stupid you can't help but want to just write them off entirely. Hillary, for example (although by no means my favorite candidate) did this a few days ago when she came out with the Republican bullshit line that the probems in Iraq are the Iraqis fault for not being able to solve all their problems (which they didn't have before they were illegally attacked). Barack Obama made a similar statement so stupid that I was immediately turned off to his otherwise attractive candidacy. He said impeachment would be inappropriate and should be employed only for grave offenses (if the Bush/Cheney offenses are not "grave" or even far worse than that, what on earth would be). Not that I would ever vote for a Republican under any circumstances, but Romney is another case in point when he blurted out that we should double Guantanamo (ignore his other obvious lies for the moment). Giuliani says things often that are so incredibly stupid you can only wonder how he ever became more than a local dogcatcher someplace, like, if Democrats get elected we would have another terrorist attack, etc. Duncan Hunter came out with a real doozy: Ann Coulter is a good American citizen. Then there are the two who admitted they did not believe in evolution.

Of course almost all seem to agree with the absurd notion that what we need are 100,000 or more troops to expand our army. I guess they think that spending more on defense than all the rest of the world combined isn't enough, we need still more. I guess we just have to realize that they are all basically nothing but corporate shills, bathing in the hot tubs of greed and profit and demanding more and more cannon fodder. Kucinich, Gravel, and Paul, having scorned the invitation, are regarded as political lepers.

My wife and son are watching some movie in the other room. I cannot see the screen but only hear the sounds. I honestly cannot tell if they are having multiple orgasms, fighting off wild animals, torturing each other, having a cannibalistic feast, maybe on their way to heaven, or enjoying Babette's Feast. It must be some movie, thank god I missed it. On a similar vein, I live in constant fear that someone will somehow force me to watch Mind of Mencia. I suspect there was some kind of mix up in my karma and I was born in the wrong century.

LKBIQ:

"She was one of those elderly 'good sports' preserved by an imperviousness to experience and a good digestion into another generation."
F. Scott Fitzgerald