Seriously? A Big Perch?
Doesn’t Bush’s big perch answer just nicely sum up everything that’s problematic with the dude?
If you’ve missed it, Bush was asked by a German reporter to name the best and worst moments of his presidency. The worst? September 11, of course. The best? Catching a 7.5 pound perch in his Texas ranch lake.
I hate this answer on so many levels.
On one level, he’s clearly trying to be “just folk.” As in, “I may be the most powerful person in the world, but all I really want to be doing is sitting by my fishin’ hole and talkin’ a spell.” The folk thing is just so fake and trite and horrible, and to me, it leaves the impression that he’s not taking the enormity of his job seriously enough. I hate it.
Furthermore, I think it’s ridiculous to be in the midst of your second term as President of the United States and not have a better answer for this question. I believe that any genuinely reflective person [as in “reflects on life,” not “is really shiny”] will be able to name at least a few real proud professional accomplishments. So either Bush ain’t reflective or he realizes that all of the alleged “successes” of his presidency (“freeing” Iraq, lowering taxes…) come with A LOT of baggage.
Finally, isn’t it a little hilarious that his best moment comes from catching a fish from his own very well-stocked lake? This is, after all, a lake filled-to-the-brim with big perch whose only purpose in life is to be caught by Bush. Is catching one of them really a big accomplishment and “best” moment? To me, it brings to mind Bush only speaking before pre-screened audiences and having a bunch of yes-men as advisers.
OK. End political rant. Back to CrazyTomCruise shortly.
If you’ve missed it, Bush was asked by a German reporter to name the best and worst moments of his presidency. The worst? September 11, of course. The best? Catching a 7.5 pound perch in his Texas ranch lake.
I hate this answer on so many levels.
On one level, he’s clearly trying to be “just folk.” As in, “I may be the most powerful person in the world, but all I really want to be doing is sitting by my fishin’ hole and talkin’ a spell.” The folk thing is just so fake and trite and horrible, and to me, it leaves the impression that he’s not taking the enormity of his job seriously enough. I hate it.
Furthermore, I think it’s ridiculous to be in the midst of your second term as President of the United States and not have a better answer for this question. I believe that any genuinely reflective person [as in “reflects on life,” not “is really shiny”] will be able to name at least a few real proud professional accomplishments. So either Bush ain’t reflective or he realizes that all of the alleged “successes” of his presidency (“freeing” Iraq, lowering taxes…) come with A LOT of baggage.
Finally, isn’t it a little hilarious that his best moment comes from catching a fish from his own very well-stocked lake? This is, after all, a lake filled-to-the-brim with big perch whose only purpose in life is to be caught by Bush. Is catching one of them really a big accomplishment and “best” moment? To me, it brings to mind Bush only speaking before pre-screened audiences and having a bunch of yes-men as advisers.
OK. End political rant. Back to CrazyTomCruise shortly.
posted by OleNelson at 11:13 AM
1 Comments:
Ugh, I hate the fact that being "just folk" gains him political power. how does having pretentions towards being a "man of the people" (prep school silver spoon trust fund man of the people) make him more trustworthy in the eyes of the American People? How are people so fooled by such crap?! Well it looks like his bullshit is finally turning transparent.
Yeah, I want to hear more ranting about TomKat. She's no longer "Katie" because she's a "child-bearing woman"....
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