Ed. Note: The editor’s note below was written before the last election. This essay is somewhat moot now, but it’s still interesting. Thus, I am publishing it now.Ed. Note: This was written a while ago, obviously, but it still holds true today. Even though Bush’s popularity rank has slipped drastically, there are still some people who think he’s a better president than (Bill) Clinton was.
Kiki said something interesting to me that I thought I’d pass along. We were talking politics as we usually do. We both are incredulous that nearly half of this country still think Dubya is doing a good job despite his slip-ups and foibles lately, and we were at a lost to say why. She told me how with each new revelation-no WMDs in Iraq; the high death toll in what was supposed to be an easy war; no connection between Hussein and bin Laden; the prisoner abuse-she thought, ‘Surely, this will be the thing that topples him,’ only to have her hopes smashed in dismay when greater America seemed to blithely ignore all the lies that Dubya has perpetuated.
Me, I’m more cynical. I had no illusions as to what it would take to cause Dubya to tumble straight to hell and out of presidency. People are lemmings for the most part and want to be told what to think. Facts only confuse them; they prefer their news in thirty-second sound-bites. As long as the spinmeisters were bleating that everything was ok, well, they would believe it daggummit. After all, the president wouldn’t lie to us, would he? Thus the selective reasoning of the common people is born and Dubya is allowed to skate on the thin ice that continues to threaten to crack and break.
Anyway, what Kiki said was that it would take a blowjob for Dubya to get thrown out of office or at least have to face serious impeachment charges. I cracked up, but she’s right. When I think back to how Clinton was treated about the whole Monica thing-just one note. Clinton, you were president, man. You could have done so much better than that. Hell, you did. Look at the woman by your side-facing impeachment over the blowjobs she gave him in the Oval Office, I want to spit in the face of hypocrisy. Mind you, I am not advocating interns to give blowjobs in the Oval Office, even if it’s to the most powerful man in the Western Hemisphere, but how can we have made such a fuss over that and yet, no one is clamoring for Dubya to step down? Just for the record-there were no WMDs found, and that was his main reason for invading Iraq against the wishes of most of the world besides Dubya’s bitch, Blair. Now we are verging on occupation rather than ‘liberation’ and Dubya has to backpedal like crazy on his opinion that this was going to be a piece of cake.
Where is the outrage that he has lied to us from day one about this whole sorry situation? Where are the demands for his head, especially after what happened to the prisoners of Abu Ghraib? By the way, they released some six hundred prisoners from Abu Ghraib just like that. Isn’t that suspicious that these prisoners were suddenly just cut loose? Sounds like a political move, doesn’t it? Dubya knows he’s in deep shit over the scandal even if it has faded from the public conscience. He needs to do everything he can in order to shore up his sagging popularity. Does anyone remember that his ratings were dropping precipitously before 9/11 happened? Does anyone even care?
So, here we are, a year after the ‘war’ started, and what have we accomplished? Did we find those WMDs? Did we find bin Laden? Weren’t those our two main goals? It’s hard to tell with all the shifting that Dubya has done as of late. It really bothers me that he’s basically getting a free ride for all the lies he’s told us while Clinton was raked over the coals for something that essentially didn’t impact the nation at all. It’s like the movies where violence is always acceptable but sex rarely is. We are a nation of hypocrites.
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