Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Bush admits it: he's dead weight

Dan Froomkin writes, "'Lead' certainly was the word of the day at the White House yesterday." Lead, as you may know, is represented in the periodic table as shown below.

82
Pb
207.2(1)

Lead is highly dense and, as such, is an appropriate metaphor for our president. In fact he...

Excuse me?

He wrote what?

Oh, not lead, LEAD! As in, follow the LEADer. Never mind!

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President Bush goes before a disaffected nation tonight to reassert his leadership -- quite possibly by insisting repeatedly that he's a leader with an obligation to lead at a time that requires leadership.
OK, enough with the lame humor. There is a fundamental problem with Dubya's leadership, and it is best expressed by the following passage from the Gospel of Luke:

He also told them a parable: "Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won't they both fall into a pit?--Luke 6:39

Bush's blindness has led us straight into the hellish pit of the Iraq war, into the bottomless pit of endless deficits, and into the fetid cesspool of torture. Why in heaven's name would we want to follow him any further?

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