Bush - Ack! Ack! Hairball

Gosh, George Bush is deriding Democrats for playing politics with his nomination of John Bolton. I have to let out a hardy Ha! Ha! and cough up a hairball when I hear politicians of his ilk deriding other politicians for being political. As the late great Mayor Washington said, "Politics ain't bean bag." And he might have added, "You twit, get used to it." Bush is polling badly on Iraq, Social Security, his conservative judges, maybe people are even getting down on his squinty flinty smirks. Too little too late, but perhaps by the end of his second term he will be cemented into a leadership role in the Top Ten Worst Presidents list. He's already there in my book, but maybe the general public, confused and deluded in the 2004 election, sees the veil lifted.

Speaking of presidents, and good ones at that, Bush visited our great state of Illinois to dedicate to the new Lincoln library. Now there's a meeting of minds - perhaps the greatest president ever (some may argue for Jefferson, Washington, TR or FDR) being lauded by this mook.

Rude Pundit has a truly delightful blog on the topic, of which I excerpt just a bit:

First off, having George W. Bush dedicate a library to Abraham Lincoln is like having David Duke dedicate a civil rights museum. It's like having James Dobson dedicate a Kinsey collection. It's like having . . . well, shit, you get the idea. It just ain't right. But because you have to dedicate presidential libraries with the President you have, not the President you want, so it was that President Bush spoke at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library yesterday.

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... Bush spoke about Lincoln's early days, his "humble beginnings," if you will: "Before history took notice, he earned money as a storekeeper, a surveyor and a post master. He taught himself the law." And perhaps the irony was not lost on the gathered crowd, that this son of privilege, who never suffered a day in his life, who had servants hired just to buff his balls after a bath, was allowed to even speak the name of Abraham Lincoln, who, faults and all, sought to keep together a nation that George Bush and the current Republicans are trying to desperately to tear apart.

Knowing the intelligence and keen eye for politics of my fellow Illinoisans, I can assure Rude Pundit that we got it. Yup. Irony, melting into tragedy. Or perhaps just plain sad.