In the wake of Bush's latest round of embarassing antics at the G8 Summit--from "Yo, Blair" to "Oh Baby, Baby, Chancellor Merkel--let me rub your shoulders"--Bush has taken another well-deserved round of beatings by the pundits. One of the better lashings comes from Cenk Uygur over at Alternet (see here). Here is an excerpt:
You know it, I know it and the American people know it. But everyone is afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are afraid of saying it publicly because you will be branded as a liberal, elite, intellectual snob. But believe me, you don't have to be an intellectual to see how painfully stupid our president is.
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This guys sounds like a third grader. Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like this with their neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world leader? Who's proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?
Can anyone now credibly claim that Bush is secretly working on a master plan behind the scenes and that he's just playing cowboy for the cameras? I hope the master plan doesn't involve figuring out how long it takes to get to China.
If someone is this ignorant, they're usually embarrassed and try not to talk much. But this guy is so dumb he has no idea how dumb he is. This sounds like a conversation you might have with a child, a mentally challenged child. Johnny, do you know how big Russia is? How about China?
This would all be unfortunate if George was your dentist, or worse yet, your accountant. But he is the leader of the free world. This man makes life or death decisions every day. If you say you're not scared about that, you're lying.
Would you let him do the books for your business? Would you trust your company in his hands for eight years? (No matter how Republican you are, you know you just said no to that question.) Would you trust him to be your kids' guidance counselor and take his advice seriously? If your kids were in the Army and he was their field commander, would you feel good about putting their lives in his hands?
Come on, no one is crazy enough to say yes to that. Yet, he has all of our lives in his hands. The emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes. It's about time someone in the mainstream media said it.
Mr. Uygur goes on to point out that the rest of the world now pities us for having a "third grader for president." And while he is certainly correct about the perceived maturity and intellectual capacity of King W the Second, I think Uygur is wrong to suggest that the world pities us. They fear us--and understandably so. After all, unlike China and Russia, George W. Bush's brain is not big. What's worse is that his heart isn't big either--just his vacant stare and his foolish global ambitions.
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