Adam's blogbox: on having an asshole as a President

It’s weird, isn’t it? Having a president who is an actual five-star industrial-strength asshole. When he says nobody expected the levees to break, you just know there’s going to be a video that shows him being briefed that the levees will break.

Think of our other recent presidents: Clinton, Bush Snr, Ford, Reagan, Carter. You might’ve disagreed with them, but none of them was an asshole. None of them lied every second sentence they uttered.

None of them was a know-nothing who brought in a bunch of crazy Cheney neocon empire dreamers to ruin our lives. All of them had more experience than this man whose only foreign experience before he became president was a few days in China. None of them was a trust-fund punk, a male cheerleader, a man who coasted on Daddy’s name, a vacant frontman, a megaphone, a puppet, a Yalie cowboy faker who bought a ranch so he can have photo ops of himself clearing brush. All of our former Presidents would have your back in a bar fight, but Bush – hey, he’d be behind the bar, giggling as you get the shit kicked out of you.

Bush has just made speech in which he says about German leader Angela Merkel that the American people see in her someone with “a bold vision and a humble heart.” Since when do grownups use such idiotic language about each other? Who writes this simple-minded stuff? Who speaks such simpleton stuff? Those trained in the simpleton ways of appealing to simpleton Americans who voted for their simple-mindedness, that’s who. The man is an international embarrassment.

His latest trick: leaning on the NY Times. Heckuva gratitude, Bushie. The NY Times was the newspaper of record that helped you sell the country on your WMD lies. Honor among thieves, indeed.

I think this is why we’ve lost the respect of everybody. Not because of the Iraq War. But because the man pushing it, the man explaining it, the man trying to give it credibility, is so plainly and obviously an asshole.

Ergo: the country that voted for him the second time around, can’t tell an asshole when he shoves his winkie right up our asses. We’re asshole-blind.

So how can we expect any respect?

It took Katrina for us to wake up to the deep doodoo of Bush’s assholery, but now it’s too late. We’re stuck with him for a few more years.

All we can do is hide our heads every time he opens his mouth. And be ashamed of our countrymen who lap him up. Hey, they’re Americans, too -- but our other half, the born suckers.

Jeez, I cringe every time I see or hear Bush. Sets my teeth on edge. Never thought a President of the United States could do that to me. The utter indignity of it. I’ve got to be alive at the moment this punk rules.

Please, God, may George W. Bush be the first and last complete asshole we turn into our President.

End of rant. Had to get it off my chest. Now return to real world. Like le headbutt.