George W. Bush, proving again he was the worst ever George W. Bush is once again at the deceptive podium, trying his best to sink both the pathetic vestiges of his party and his own reputation to ever-greater historic lows. And Georgie is doing a helluva job.
Wednesday night, as you know, he spoke gibberish for what must have seemed like an interminable hour in Erie, Pennsylvania to the Manufacturers and Business Association, proving that those on both sides of the lectern have far greater stamina than normal folks.
He came loaded for bear and, characteristically, was chock full of virtually everything nonsensical that the American electorate just rejected, perhaps for good.
For example he hauled along this standard rhetorical chestnut: "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money." On dinner and a movie, absolutely. But what about, say, health care? -- where it just might help to have 300 million others buying into the same government-owned-and-operated insurance pool as you.
Yet Bush, as he put it, "worr[ies] about encouraging the government to replace the private sector when it comes to providing insurance for health care" -- nice, since he has a government pension, complete with a government health-care package.
And, besides, he's still in pretty darn good physical shape, largely because of those eight years he spent exercising on a government salary rather than worrying about your health care.
When asked if he thought Barack Obama is a socialist, Bush said, "We'll see." But it would have been of greater benefit to us all if the questioner had instead posed, "Do you regard yourself as the halfwitted fascist the entire world with profound justification came to see you as?" At least we could have seen the famous Bush smirk.
He was the worst ever, hands down. Worse than Buchanan, worse than Pierce, far worse, even, than the brazenly criminal Nixon. And no number of speeches can ever reverse that.
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