Always the fool

Colorado restaurant owner and
Security Guard taser each other
in dispute over parked van.

It’s true I don’t like Sundays. But you can find some truly amusing things if you look. For example, Bush now claims that the plight of the Palestinians, “breaks his heart.” Bush does not lack for chutzpah. After more than seven years of aiding and abetting Israel’s neo-genocidal attack on the Palestinians, he now has the gall to announce that their plight is breaking his heart? Having encouraged the Palestinians to have democratic elections, when they did so and legally elected a government (Hamas), Bush and the Israelis refused to recognize it. Not only that, they have treated it as a terrorist group! Now, with the sanction of the Bush administration, Israel has crowded a million and a half Palestinians into Gaza and is systematically starving and shooting them. The Palestinians, with virtually no choice, are firing a few primitive rockets into Israel so of course the problem is all their fault. “When you’re slapped,” says Humphrey Bogart, “you’ll just take it and like it.” The Israelis have been systematically stealing Palestinian land and water for years, with the full connivance of the Bush/Cheney administration and refuse to stop. Indeed, they are stepping up their illegal building programs on the West Bank. Bush’s heart is broken over the Palestinian plight, but not enough to do anything about it. Bush, if you do not already know, is a lying hypocrite and a scoundrel of the first order. He is apparently too stupid to know it.

Perhaps not as horrible as his claims about the Palestinians is the report today that he has been “lecturing” the Arabs about good government and the rights of women. George W. Bush, the greatest know-nothing President in American history, has the nerve to lecture anyone about good government and the rights of women? I wonder if he’s using his administration as a model of good government. I’m sure the Arabs were more than mildly amused to listen to this absolute moron “lecturing” them. They were so impressed by their “friend,” they turned his request for more oil down flat. I can’t understand why anyone lets laughing-stock-of-the-century even make speeches anymore. I guess they are just hard up for laughs.

The most hilarious of all is Bush’s absurd claim that it will be possible to solve the Palestinian/Israeli problem before the end of his administration. That is, in just the few remaining months of his lame duck Presidency. This is a most serious problem that has been festering for 60 years and has resisted all attempts to settle it up until now. In the meanwhile, thanks in great part to Bush’s allowing the Israelis to alienate even more land and water, it has grown even worse. Given the current situation with respect to both land and water, it may not even be possible to have a viable two state solution. Bush’s claim that it can be solved in the next few months betrays an appalling ignorance of the facts and the reality. But when did he ever bother about either facts or reality? Every speech he makes, and every claim he makes, only serve to prove what a complete and utter fool he really is. He is apparently too stupid to realize this so he just proceeds with his ridiculous babble day after day, knowing that his pal, Pelosi, is protecting him. By the way, you don’t hear much from “Condi Rice or Dick the Slimy these days. Are even they too embarrassed to defend him? McCain isn’t, he’s prepared to run on this platform of “war,” fear, and incompetence

I believe Hillary Clinton has been and is a victim of sexism, just as Obama has been and is a victim of racism. But did anyone believe even for a moment this would not happen with a woman and a black man both running for President? If so, they were terribly naïve. It appears that Obama may succeed where Clinton failed (she did not fail simply because of sexism, of course). These prejudices are fading, perhaps not quickly enough, but if Obama succeeds, a woman President will not be far behind, and it will be about time.

LKBIQ:
“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
Aristotle