Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Not No Idiot

Adam Baldwin damns George W. Bush with faint sense:
Yet, this good man, by the Lord’s grace, met the gravest of challenges, persevered and succeeded far beyond the subversive expectations of America’s enemies and craven-wordsmith critics – described by Edmund Burke as, “the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”
I subversively thought he would be bad, and he was TERRIBLE.
In time, and with the benefit of “the distance of history”, objective chroniclers will no doubt cement President Bush’s collected record as Commander-in Chief as truly one of the greatest, albeit (as are all) imperfect, achievements in leadership and dignity that mankind has ever witnessed.
Cement still comes in the form of shoes, doesn't it?

13 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

In his role as CinC, i.e. pertaining only to command of the armed forces, he left us bogged down in two foreign entanglements.

Grade: F

Only Buchanan is close to being as bad. But I'm grading Buchanan on a curve because he didn't have the tools that a modern Preznit has at his disposal.
~

tigris said...

Objective chroniclers of the future will be as dumb as dirt, then? And as bad as "great achievements in leadership" is(he led harder and faster than anyone!) what exactly is a "great achievement in dignity?"

Substance McGravitas said...

Objective chroniclers of the future will be as dumb as dirt, then?

Are we allowed to consider recent trends?

M. Bouffant said...

It must be difficult (esp. for actor-ninnies like Baldy) to find yet another way to express the same few cliches.

That said, he gets no credit for this one.

tigris said...

Are we allowed to consider recent trends?

Will you be chronicling them objectively?

Brando said...

GWB is like Harding if Harding served two terms and believed that he had a phone that called Jesus directly.

Smut Clyde said...

America’s enemies and craven-wordsmith critics – described by Edmund Burke as

Prophetic dude, that Burke. How come Nostradamus gets all the prescience credit?

Smut Clyde said...

what exactly is a "great achievement in dignity?"

Maintaining a straight face when you manage to fall off a Segway.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

cement also comes as epoxy or superglue, and we could perhaps cement W's balls to his forehead....

mikey said...

Dignity? No. Seriously. DIGNITY??

Dood, c'mon, you can see the bush II presidency as a lot of things, and if you have congenital brain damage and were an abused child with addiction problems you MIGHT even find in it's narrow, bigoted, violent, dishonest and craven undertakings some things you might choose to call successful.

But uh-uh. If there was one thing that was lacking from the florida recount to the final trip home to a texas suburb, it was dignity. There is no process, no matter how contrived or delusional, that could lead one to find anything even approaching dignity in the bush/cheney presidency....

tigris said...

There is no process, no matter how contrived or delusional, that could lead one to find anything even approaching dignity in the bush/cheney presidency....

Maybe THAT was his "great achievement!"

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Anybody who was paying attention to Molly Ivins knew that dignitude was not W's shtick.

At that, he managed to not puke on a foreign leader, so by at least one metric, he outperformed old Dad...

Susan of Texas said...

Shit. I'll never sing "A Man Called Jayne" with the same joi de vivre.