Notes on Bush News Conference
Posted: December 20th, 2004, 12:53 pm
Notes on Bush news conference:
Now, if I didn't know better, I would swear from my extensive observation of people on amphetamines, that the President had received a visit from Jack Kennedy's doctah just before the press conference. He expatiated needlessly and repeated himself and he was grinding his teeth. He kept talking in circles, but what's new about that?
The presentation reached the height of circular absurdity when Dubya tried to dodge the question of what his Social Security plan was exactly, by announcing that he wasn't going to "negotiate with himself" in public. He said this three or four times. I guess he thought it was clever. It is really only an expression of his despotic mindset. The king only has to negotiate with himself.
Dubya thinks that all he has to do is negotiate with Himself and when he agrees with himself, he can do miracles like declare victory in Iraq. The petty little tyrant thinks that just as soon as he decrees something, as soon as He believes it, then it becomes true.
Yes, it looked like he was speeding. I think this whole government is speeding. They are speeding toward a brick wall called reality.
Dubya'a dad coined the phrase 'voodoo economics.' I guess Georgie Boy took the term to heart because his preposterous notion that we can heal Social Security by means of reducing the incoming revenues and letting people establish their own private investment accounts, while neither reducing benefits nor raising the retirement age is nothing short of miraculous. But Dubya thinks he can do miracles.
He thinks that if he asserts a notion, then that makes it true. He is, after all, the President. Take this little jewel of revisionist history for example: "Free countries don't go to war with other free countries." I guess he forgot about a minor affair called The American Revolution. But still he maintains that when we enforce 'democracy' on the Iraqis at the point of an American gun, that somehow it will inspire and transform the region and change the world. On the strength of this wild assertion he bases his foreign policy. Why doesn't he spread freedom and democracy in Korea, where they really need it? Oh yeah, no oil there.
The Koreans don't have oil, but they do have approximately six more nuclear warheads than they had when Dubya declared the war on terror. He hemmed and hawed around the question about this subject in his news conference by saying that we needed a coalition of countries from the region to help us exert pressure on the Koreans to disarm. That's a fresh idea from the cowboy who went into Iraq for all practical purposes solo. If the President is the macho man he portrays himself to be, he would tell Kim Jong Eel, "Look here hombre, if you don't flush your stash of nukes, then we are gonna come in with our long-range bombers and cruise missiles and show you the meaning of True American Shock and Awe and then, in about two hundred years, you can plan on planting rice and potatoes where your nuclear facilities used to be. And you have fifteen minutes to make up your mind."
But Bushco is not a government, not really. It is a PR firm. Their job is to make the American people think that black is white and hot is cold and down is up. With Newspeak pros like Rove and Card and Cheney calling the plays, and with every mouthpiece in the administration dutifully singing the same jingles over and over, they are succeeding. They can tell you that you are secure because of them, or that they are spreading freedom when they are actually spreading corporate imperial hegemony or that they are giving you something when they have their hands in your pocket, and if they tell the lies often enough, some will believe them. Will you?
Now, if I didn't know better, I would swear from my extensive observation of people on amphetamines, that the President had received a visit from Jack Kennedy's doctah just before the press conference. He expatiated needlessly and repeated himself and he was grinding his teeth. He kept talking in circles, but what's new about that?
The presentation reached the height of circular absurdity when Dubya tried to dodge the question of what his Social Security plan was exactly, by announcing that he wasn't going to "negotiate with himself" in public. He said this three or four times. I guess he thought it was clever. It is really only an expression of his despotic mindset. The king only has to negotiate with himself.
Dubya thinks that all he has to do is negotiate with Himself and when he agrees with himself, he can do miracles like declare victory in Iraq. The petty little tyrant thinks that just as soon as he decrees something, as soon as He believes it, then it becomes true.
Yes, it looked like he was speeding. I think this whole government is speeding. They are speeding toward a brick wall called reality.
Dubya'a dad coined the phrase 'voodoo economics.' I guess Georgie Boy took the term to heart because his preposterous notion that we can heal Social Security by means of reducing the incoming revenues and letting people establish their own private investment accounts, while neither reducing benefits nor raising the retirement age is nothing short of miraculous. But Dubya thinks he can do miracles.
He thinks that if he asserts a notion, then that makes it true. He is, after all, the President. Take this little jewel of revisionist history for example: "Free countries don't go to war with other free countries." I guess he forgot about a minor affair called The American Revolution. But still he maintains that when we enforce 'democracy' on the Iraqis at the point of an American gun, that somehow it will inspire and transform the region and change the world. On the strength of this wild assertion he bases his foreign policy. Why doesn't he spread freedom and democracy in Korea, where they really need it? Oh yeah, no oil there.
The Koreans don't have oil, but they do have approximately six more nuclear warheads than they had when Dubya declared the war on terror. He hemmed and hawed around the question about this subject in his news conference by saying that we needed a coalition of countries from the region to help us exert pressure on the Koreans to disarm. That's a fresh idea from the cowboy who went into Iraq for all practical purposes solo. If the President is the macho man he portrays himself to be, he would tell Kim Jong Eel, "Look here hombre, if you don't flush your stash of nukes, then we are gonna come in with our long-range bombers and cruise missiles and show you the meaning of True American Shock and Awe and then, in about two hundred years, you can plan on planting rice and potatoes where your nuclear facilities used to be. And you have fifteen minutes to make up your mind."
But Bushco is not a government, not really. It is a PR firm. Their job is to make the American people think that black is white and hot is cold and down is up. With Newspeak pros like Rove and Card and Cheney calling the plays, and with every mouthpiece in the administration dutifully singing the same jingles over and over, they are succeeding. They can tell you that you are secure because of them, or that they are spreading freedom when they are actually spreading corporate imperial hegemony or that they are giving you something when they have their hands in your pocket, and if they tell the lies often enough, some will believe them. Will you?
