Forrest Gump's Evil Twin

[Wetzelbill]

Forrest Gump's Evil Twin
By Stephen Pizzo
News for Real

Friday 21 April 2006

How extraordinary. Something is happening here that has never happened in America's history. A consensus is sweeping the nation. Not that the war in Iraq is wrong, or that oil companies are screwing us blue, or that the climate is going to hell, or that good-paying jobs are being replaced by low-paying jobs, or that our national health care system is a disgrace, or that that the rich are getting a lot richer while the middle class gets poorer.

While all that's true, and more and more folks are getting it, that's not the consensus of which I speak. Nope. This one is bigger, enormous, huge!

Here it is: The president of the United States is a moron.

Yes, stupid, dumb as common road gravel. And not figuratively, but literally. George W. Bush, president of the world's last remaining superpower, is a moron. Forrest Gump's evil twin.

I broached this possibility one year ago in a post entitled, "Bush: The Worst President Ever?" I was a bit early with that one. But what a difference a year makes! The cover story of this week's Rolling Stone Magazine reads, "The Worst President in History?"

So the jury is in: Bush is a moron. If stupid is as stupid does, he's stupid. A botched war on terror, exploding debt, his "what me worry" response to Katrina - and the ongoing mismanagement of the recovery, North Korea has the bomb and Iran is on its way to its own nuke. Think about that for a second because it is definitive proof Bush is a moron. First he identifies three nations as his "Axis of Evil" in the world: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Then he as a chance to whack one of the three, and he picks the only one that had no WMD. The only way he could look worse is if it were only two countries - a coin flip - and he still got it wrong.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106G.shtml

[BrklynLiberal]

1. HA! Suddenly many more are realizing what so many of us knew from the

start!
The Emperor was naked when he was Governor of Texas, and he never had any more clothes on when the Presidency was stolen for him.
He is still stark naked!

[Wetzelbill]

2. No doubt

This line cracked me up:

"You can drag a moron to a library, but you can't force him to learn."


:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Also, read Paul Krugman's column today, "The Great Revulsion"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x205171

[Wetzelbill]

6. I just read that

it's a great article. Krugman is spot on.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. He always is, isn't he?

[Wetzelbill]

8. Krugman made me want to write columns

I first started getting seriously into his stuff in 2002. Mainly, I'm a short story guy, but reading Krugman and Molly Ivins got me interested in writing politics. His willingness to come out and call Bush a liar fascinated me. He'd just flatly state Bush lied about something, usually at that time economic issues. So soon after I applied for and got a job as a columnist, which I did for a short while. But, yeah, Paul Krugman is the guy that got me interested in giving that a shot. He's that good. :)

[DemoTex]

10. Bu$h was "greased" into the GovTex slot by Ken Lay & Friends.

That worked so well for their energy plan-of-plunder, that they greased him into POTUS. It took some scrubbing, though (TANG records, DWI and possible drug convictions, rumored abortions, apparent addictions, bankruptcies, financial bailouts by daddy's friends, etc). The Emperor was a nasty little bastard. Still is, in fact.

[cpousnret]

4. bush`s redistribution of wealth

will kick in in about 2 years,the rethugs will be thrown out of office with a vengeance

[Wetzelbill]

5. man, I hope so

:)

We just need this damn nightmare to end.

[Wetzelbill]

9. Shameless kick

this article is too good to let die. :)

[RedG1]

11. As each day passes, this bush43 administration

and it's troop of monkey followers and the treasonous/traitorous/impeachable actions are more and more like watching a sequel to the Peter Sellers' "Being There (1979)" movie...

Sellers' character...Chance - Chauncey Gardiner...was a simple minded, possibly retarded character whose TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.

He lived his entire life in a fancy Washington D.C. home under the care of a mysterious old man and his maid. Never learning to read or write, his only contact with the outside world are the many televisions scattered throughout the home and a rooftop garden that is under his delicate care.

Chance lives a peaceful life as the gardener for the “old man” until the time of the “old man’s” sudden death. Chance has no real comprehension of the situation, and lacks the capacity to show or feel emotion because he has been closed off to the world for his whole life, learning catchphrases and mannerisms from watching television.

Chance packs a suitcase, dons one of the “old man’s” business suits and walks out the front door for the first time in his life. He encounters urban Washington DC life first hand until his fortunate encounter with Eve (Shirley MacLaine). He is watching television through a store window when her limousine backs into him, harming his leg.

Fearing litigation and financial woes, and perhaps in a gesture of good nature, Eve offers to take Chance back to her home where her father has private physicians to take care of him. He meets the sick father Benjamin (Melvyn Douglas) and they hit it off immediately. Chance is completely misunderstood, so everyone around him thinks he’s a profoundly brilliant businessman.

Those around him distort the meaning of his words because they add a profundity that is based on the complexity they have attached to their own lives.
This simple, ignorant gardener wins the affection of dignitaries, politicians and television personalities.

aaah...if only this horrible administration were merely a movie sequel <big sigh>