tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post3268489700141076750..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away?hederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-15019318799827925172008-01-30T15:39:00.000-08:002008-01-30T15:39:00.000-08:00Timothy Bottoms has apparently made a little cotta...Timothy Bottoms has apparently made a little cottage industry playing Bush II in various venues. I didn't know about that until I checked out the IMDb page for The Paper Chase, a favorite movie of mine from the early 1970's, whose young long-haired star I once upon a time sort of resembled. Bottoms comes from an acting family, and his three brothers are all in the acting business too. <BR/><BR/>Why anyone would want to play Bush II straight is a mystery to me. Dana Carvey nearly made a career out of imitating Bush I some years back, but recent heart disease complications have kept him out of work, and the limelight, for the last five years. Pity, he was a real talent. <BR/><BR/>I've never been able to understand my fellow citizens in the Red States. Critics of Nixon used to posit the proposition that his admirers believed he was speaking "secretly" to them, in a kind of code language. Nixon fans "knew" that the old sly fox was "putting on a show" by saying all the right PC things, while furthering his (and their) agenda behind closed doors. Well, he certainly was doing things behind closed doors, but perhaps not what those people imagined. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps something of the same kind has developed with Bush II. Bush's awkwardness, his poker-faced stupidity, are all applauded by his supporters, who read these as signs of "honesty" and "steadfastness" and "straight-shooting." Ha. Dubya is an imposter. He's Charlie McCarthy, the only question is who's pulling the strings. Historians will be telling us all about it in 15 years, but by then we'll all be knee-deep in the shit he's set in motion over the last eight sad years. Why the press insists on withholding these revelations until after all the corruption and deception has worked its way through the system is another mystery. During the Nixon debacle, investigative journalism actually caught up with reality for a few weeks. Folks like Cheney vowed that'd never happen again, and they've pretty much succeeded in keeping everything covered up, so far. <BR/><BR/>I'll admit to fantasizing about a madman assassinating Dubya. Where are these anarchists when we need them? <BR/><BR/>We certainly don't deserve what we've gotten the last seven years. Our young men have given their lives, and their best years, for nothing. We've spent our nest egg on bombs and war materiel. The rich have gotten richer. The poor have gotten poorer. The middle class is fast disappearing. <BR/><BR/>Bush's greatest accomplishment was in duping ordinary middle class Americans into thinking that stealing their jobs, their health care, their pensions, their resources, and their honor, was somehow in their own interest. How incredibly stupid we've been as a nation. An embarrassment, really, to the world.<BR/><BR/>The next president, whoever it is, will have a fine mess on his/her hands.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com