Tophat665

It is unfortunate, but there are certain excellent human qualities that George W. Bush and, more importantly, Carl Rove know exactly how to take advantage of.

Let's take honor, for instance. If you're truly honorable, then, in the absence of very ironclad evidence that the man is a truth impaired moral cripple with delusions of adequacy, you have to believe him when he says, under oath, that he has the welfare of the country in mind and not some globally hegemonic domination fantasy dreampt up at the <strike>Legion of Doom</strike> PNADC. Doesn't necessarily mean that the total accumulation of little bits of evidence won't eventually sway you, and cause you to doubt some and then all of what the man says, but it does mean that it'll take you longer.

Fortunately, I am willing to condemn a politician of any party on circumstantial evidence. The way things are now, they already come to power with a heavy load of guilt. This one, in particular, seems every bit as corrput as a 1980s tinpot Latin American dictator, and every bit as honest as a $3 bill. He looks remarkably like a preemptive strike from the obscenely wealthy in the class war, such as it is. If only in a "Methinks the lady doth protest overmuch" sort of a way.

And, of course, I have raw hatred on my side, so if you don't have the capacity for that, you might feel bad about feeling good every time he makes an obvious screwup or not feeling good when he does an exquisite PR job like this. But that's what it takes to generate the kind of emotion it is going to take to remove this stain on the oval office carpet back to Texas where he belongs: all the time, not just 4 months out of the year.

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