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It’s like the Blue Fairy has promised us-
-“A Real Live Boy” but all we’ve gotten for the past four years is
a “Little Wooden Boy”. He
doesn’t have a completed brain or body and functions much like any
other marionette. Except he speaks. And
he tries to make us believe he knows what he’s talking about even as
his nose grows. And this Little Wooden Boy has taken us to
Donkey Land where we are stuck in a vicious cycle of evil deeds that
will keep us from ever finding our way home.
With Dick Cheney as “Stromboli”, or maybe “Foulfellow”,
pulling the strings, we will soon be in the belly of a whale while
Geppetto searches for us on land and sea.
We have been slogging through the slime and
the muck for weeks now trying to find a handle on the truth as spoken by
Pinocchio Bush. Our hero
John Kerry has been doing his level best to translate the gibberish
coming from Pinocchio into facts and figures we can understand.
Pretty much, after the second “debate”- -not really a debate
because it’s just dueling campaign speeches- -at Washington University
in St Louis, we find that the president still speaks as though the world
is a surprise to him and that he is only vaguely familiar with the facts
the rest of America takes for granted as a part of our daily lives.
(When did the word “internet” become a plural -
-“internets”?) He doesn’t even know what his business
dealings are. In
a squabble over whether John Kerry's tax plan would hurt small
businesses, Senator Kerry said, "The President got $84 from a
timber company that he owns that he's counted as a small business." Bushie
did a double take. "I own a timber company?" he said.
"News to me.” Then,
after hemming and hawing like a school kid caught cheating, he tried to
make light of it by asking moderator Charlie Gibson “Need some
wood?" In
fact, according to The New York
Times, on Mr. Bush's 2001 tax return he reported $84 of business
income from his stake in a timber-growing enterprise. Since then, he has
listed this income as "royalties" on a different tax schedule. What a wooden head. What
I wooden do to see him gone. And
just as Charles Duelfer, the Bush Administration’s own choice to
complete the U S investigation of the Iraqi weapons programs reported to
Congress that Saddam had no WMDs and hadn’t had for over a dozen
years, the President tried to make the point that “See- -I was right
to remove Saddam from power because he was thinking
about WMDs.” Of course,
we now know Pinocchio sold the American people a bill of goods claiming
we had to start a war with Iraq because Saddam had these very same WMDs which his own inspector proved Saddam did
not. And our own
intelligence community proved that it is not exactly aptly named.
Intelligence? What
a pickle. Sort of like the
one Junior always looks like he’s sucking on when someone smarter and
better informed challenges him on any point of fact - -say, for example,
Senator Kerry. The
nervous tics and body language of the President reveal him to be like a
small boy who has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and his
repeated use of the same stock phrases over and over indicate that the
lights may be on but nobody’s home.
After
this second debate, I feel less safe than I did after the first one.
This guy’s in charge?
YIKES!! HELP!!!
Run for your lives!! No
matter what he says, for example, Bush tried to explain how “Small
businesses begin to grow”, he is lost and confused.
The more he tries to explain, the more his nose grows.
He can talk about health care all he wants, and he should learn
how the system works, because soon he will need a Pinocchiotomy. Senator
Kerry is so together when standing beside this whiny little spoiled brat
that it is almost as if anything he might say will set this punk off.
I hope by the third debate they are trading blows.
They clearly can’t stand each other.
Fisticuffs are in order. Or
maybe they can borrow Zell Miller’s dueling pistols. Earlier
this week the smilingly youthful Harry Potter, in the guise of John
Edwards, went up against the Evil Voldemort, although comparing Dick
Cheney to Voldemort is to do Voldemort a disservice.
Compared to Cheney, Voldemort’s a pretty nice guy.
It is stunningly amazing to me how the truth just skips away from
Cheney as if it never made contact.
“The first time I ever met you Senator was when you walked in
here tonight.” Oh really?
Perhaps you never saw the Prayer Breakfast photos?
Or the swearing in of the other North Carolina Senator Elizabeth
Dole? Cheney voted against “Meals on Wheels” for Seniors, and
against “Head Start” Edwards pointed out.
Now there’s the definition of a “Compassionate
Conservative” if ever there was one.
How
anyone can still be undecided is beyond me.
With Karl Rove, Junior Bush and Dick Cheney you have “See no
evil, Speak no evil, and Evil.” Senator
Kerry has another shot at snipping the puppet’s strings in hopes he
tumbles to the floor. I
would hope that we as a country would be smart enough to see through the
phony shenanigans which pass as the Bush Administration and give wiser
heads a chance to prove their worth.
It may be a lot to expect. The
president’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, was recently quoted in The
New Yorker as saying that Bush regards most Americans as the
intellectual equivalent of ten-year-olds.
And this coming from a guy who’s barely a teenager. It’s time
to make kindling of our Little Wooden Boy and hire a Real Live Boy to
run the country. SING: “When
you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your
heart desires will come to you. If
your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme
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