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Bush: Our Lowest Common Denominator in Chief
Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave us The New Deal.
George Walker Bush gives us an appearance on Deal or No Deal.
Our Commander in Chief made a cameo appearance on Deal or No Deal to give a message to a contestant, who had served three tours of duty in Iraq (the third tour, mind you, was a stop-loss tour). Bush honored him for his service and then made a lame attempt at humor:
“I’m thrilled to be on Deal or No Deal’ with you tonight,” Bush said. “Come to think of it, I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days.”
It’s amazing that Bush finds his own incompetence so damned amusing.
Come to think of it, Deal or No Deal was the perfect place for Bush to make an appearance.
* The game requires absolutely no intelligence
* Against all odds, contestants make ill-advised choices based on greed
* Contestants rely on the terrible advice of their closest friends and advisors
Comments (1)
I'm not sure I can add anything to that. I think you pegged King George perfectly. One wonders how he can always be smiling when everything that he puts his hand to, goes belly up.
But it's either a demonstration of how insulated he is from the reality around him, or he's confident knowing that some right wing historian do a biography, and thus, create his legend like they did with Reagan.
The sad thing is, that conservatives will try to push this mythology, as they did with Reagan, into the mainstream, and twenty years from now, people will be talking about what a wonderful president George Bush was, without remembering what an incompetent he was.
April 22, 2008 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
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