Sunday, January 18, 2009

Because It's Still Not Over

And because we must swear eternal vigilance against every form of bush-worship rationalization over the facts of history:

There’s one final myth about this President that the Rude Pundit would like to put to rest: George W. Bush is not a man you would want to have a beer with. No, not because if you saw him in a bar, you'd react like you had gone on the sex offender registry in Dallas and discovering that a guy who fucked babies in his basement was now living in the downstairs apartment. It's that, despite any feints at finding him charming, he is not, in his soul, a kind or decent person.

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The Rude Pundit doesn't drink with irredeemable dickheads, with self-righteous balls of fuck who think their very existence demands your respect and attention, with privileged cockmongers who can't manage even a moment of self-awareness.

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Yet we can't just bury this presidency alive in the cold, cold ground and have a picnic on the earth above it, joyously toasting as it screams and claws and tries to get free before it inhales dirt, gags, vomits, and dies horribly, not knowing why it deserved such an awful fate. No, alas, no.

Because the reason I will unreasonably hate this man, these men, these women, as human beings, and not just for ideologies and actions, is because neither I nor most of you will live to see the day that all their hurt is healed.

Read the whole thing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Your last paragraph is amazingly cogent, to the point, and undeniably true. I was talking to my 25-year-old daughter on this very topic the other night, and we both shed a few tears to realize that even she, much less I, will not live to see it. We must, as a nation, live with the shame of having elected Shrub twice, probably for the rest of this century, if not beyond.

Doesn't mean we can't regain our national pride - just means we can't pretend that pride is not tarnished for a while yet.