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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Griper Blade: Bush, Karzai, and the Nature of Reality

Bush and Karzai


President Bush still enjoys a smidgen of support. An AP-Ipsos poll finds that "just 1 in 3 Americans approves of the job he is doing" and that "Bush's job approval rating has spiraled to record lows for his presidency." This is actually better than other recent polls that show only one in four supporting the president.

Who are these final unshakeable Bush supporters? Are they residents of the State Home for the Perpetually Gullible? Do they have massive and untreated head trauma?

Actually, they're Bush clones. The vast majority of Bush's support comes from the "conservative, white, Republican man, an evangelical Christian and regular churchgoer." Never mind that the last time Bush saw the inside of a Methodist church was probably the day he was married, his supporters think he's a churchgoin' fella.

Bush seems to have given up on the rest of us a long time ago and governs only to please that small segment of the american population who are exactly like him. He doesn't have to be re-elected, so what does he care what we think? No wonder they're happy with him.

The problem with this segment of the population is that they're completely delusional. Case in point, Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Karzai visited the US to brief our president on conditions in Afghanistan. Turns out things aren't great. In an interview on CNN, Karzai said that "The security situation in Afghanistan over the past two years has definitely deteriorated. The Afghan people have suffered. Terrorists have killed our schoolchildren. They have burned our schools. They have killed international helpers."...

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