What Drug Is Bush Taking Now?
by James Buchanan
Much to the amazement of many Americans George Bush came out just two weeks before the November election saying that our policy in Iraq is not “Stay the Course.” Excuse me? Weren’t the words “Stay the course” in almost every public statement by Bush since the insurgency became a problem? Various not-so-friendly media personalities rushed for their archives of Bush statements so they could be the first to compile an audio montage of Bush saying “Stay the course” enough times to prove this wasn’t just a lie; this was a whopper.
We would have to travel back to the year 2000 and Al Gore to get a similar example of a high-ranking politician, who had a literally delusional disconnect from reality. Al Gore was said to be a heavy marijuana user by at least one of his longtime friends. During the 2,000 presidential debates, Gore seemed both arrogant and odd. (The clown make-up didn’t help either.)
In the 2004 debates, it seemed Bush was the one on drugs while Kerry was sober. Bush was judged to have lost all three debates, despite that little black box under his coat and the secret earpiece. It was already obvious that Bush and the neocons had lied us into the Iraq War. The war and the glaring war-profiteering by Cheney’s old company Halliburton seemed certain to make Bush Junior a one-term president just like his dad. Perhaps Karl Rove did not let Bush in on the secret of the Diebold electronic voting machines. These machines caused a statistically impossible divergence from exit polls in multiple states, turning Bush from a loser to a winner thanks to a little creative computer hacking. (more…)