Ignorance & Arrogance

The above title comes from a post written about the WGA strike, but I think that it's an absolutely perfect description of George Bush. Indeed, I believe that he's arrogant ABOUT being ignorant because God knows he has nothing else to be arrogant about. He's like those people you meet sometimes who seem proud to say that they don't read, or know about anything that happened before they were born. I don't believe for a minute that Bush has read any of the books he says he has. I'm convinced that the only way he got through Yale & Harvard Business was by paying someone to write papers & maybe even to take exams. He only got in because he was a legacy; the Bushes must have given a LOT of money. Dubya seems to be proud of the fact that a "C" student was able to become President; we all should be very ashamed of that same fact. What happened to "the best & the brightest," a phrase used during the Kennedy years? Don't you WANT your president to be smarter than you, or at least AS SMART? Bush has certainly proven that ANYONE can become President (that is, if you're also rich & have a daddy to bail you out all your life ). I will never, ever get over the fact that the voters elected this man President TWICE. It does more than boggle the mind; it makes us seem as though we're either a nation of people as ignorant as Bush himself, or we're all mentally ill. Do you have another explanation? We were gullible enough to let the Republicans first literally steal an election (& maybe two), & then frighten us to death about "terrorists." We were like lambs to the slaughter, both times. If it hadn't had such tragic results, it would have been humorous. Well, maybe not humorous, unless it's black humor.

We should really all (I mean Democrats, Independents, & recovering Republicans) make a solemn vow to vigorously support whomever becomes the Democratic nominee. ANY of them would be better than anyone the Republicans nominate, by a long shot. I mean, Hillary's disappointed me, too, but at least she's smart & she does have Bill. We can't afford to be too "pure" this time around. If the Ohio primary were tomorrow, I'd vote for Edwards, but by the time it actually rolls around Hillary may be the unofficial nominee, so I'll probably do what I always do & vote for the obvious choice. I still am holding a glimmer of hope that Gore might jump in at the last minute, but that's probably not going to happen. At least Hillary knows how to run a good campaign, & she won't take shit from whoever the Republicans nominate from that group of hypocrites & stumblebums that are running. I really don't envy whomever gets elected president next year, 'cause he/she will have an incredibly hard time trying to clean up all the crap left by Bush, & I don't just mean the war. It's going to be difficult just to know where to begin, although Iraq is actually a pretty good start. Eight years might not be enough.