George III of England, monarch during the American Revolution, exhibited increasingly bizarre behaviors later in life. It may have been madness, environmental toxins or a hereditary condition such as porphyria.
Our own King George has become similarly odd in recent days. In terms of inherited conditions, he certainly acquired the Bush family stupidity, dishonesty, cupidity, avarice, etc. Much also can be explained, however, from when George looked at himself in the mirror, a mirror with lines of white powder on it.
Jimmy Buffett sang in "We are the People Our Parents Warned Us About" that "I got a guitar, found a job in a bar, playin' acid rock til I was numb, tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come." Well, Jimmy, they are right here being played out in the White House on a daily basis.
This from the most recent press conference:
PRESIDENT: Bianca? Nobody named Bianca? Well, sorry Bianca's not here. I'll be glad to answer her question.
[UNKNOWN REPORTER] I'll follow up.
THE PRESIDENT: No, that's fine. (Laughter.) Thank you though, appreciate it. Just trying to spread around the joy of asking a question.
[UNKNOWN REPORTER] How is the strategy outlined today by General Casey different from what the United States was doing in the past? What lessons would you say have been incorporated in it? And based on that, how much closer do you think we are to being able to turn over full control of the security situation?
THE PRESIDENT: It's going to be a while to turn over full control. Full control says that the Iraqis are capable of moving around the country and sharing intelligence and they got a command control system that works like ours, and that's going to be a while. Turning over some control to Iraqis is now taking place. As I told you, there are more Iraqis in the lead -- Iraqis are in the lead in this mission for the first time on a major operation.
What General Casey briefed us on was how our strategy of cleaning out the terrorists out of a city and being able to fill in behind, or leave behind Iraqi forces, is beginning to pay off. And what hadn't happened in the past was the capacity to fill that void with a capable force that would prevent the terrorists from coming back in.
[ANITA] Mr. President, could we talk more about --
THE PRESIDENT: Are you Bianca?
[ANITA] No, I'm not. Anita -- Fox News.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay.
[ANITA] Just a quick question --
THE PRESIDENT: Okay. I was looking for Bianca. I'm sorry.
Bianca???? Hmmm, is he flashing back to a drug-addled threesome with Mick and the Mrs? Perhaps an unhealthy obsession with Buddy Biancalana, a light-hitting shortstop for the Kansas City Royals in the mid-80s?
Or perhaps it was more innocent than my suspicions of delayed drug responses. Perhaps he was just looking for a stooge to lob a softball question now that America's favorite gay hooker has been banned from the press room.
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This is what happens when you have a president who is used to only appearing before carefully screened audiences. Even at press conferences he has to rely on those who'll lob softballs at him. Bianca? Hell, he didn't even know who she was, her last name, what she looked like or if she was even there, just that she would ask him a kneepad question.
What an embarassment this clown is.
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