I guess Bush thinks spreading this around will make something beautiful grow


Thus, the Party betrays and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do so in the name of Socialism.
--Orwell 1984.

I didn't watch the inaugural speech and have no desire to do a line-by-line analysis of the bullshit contained therein. (I simply take it as a given that everything Bush's speechwriters tell him to say is an utter lie, including the articles and prepositions.) I do find it ironic though that Bush just spent $40 million to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into an armed fortress in order to tell us about his wish to spread freedom around the world. Sadly, I'm sure this is what freedom looks like to George W. Bush, which may explain why he still insists that Iraq is going swimmingly.

And don't worry China. George W. Bush certainly wasn't threatening to spread freedom to you. I mean, if you guys had a democracy, you just might allow unions and then where would Wal-Mart be? And Russia, you're okay, because George W. Bush looked into your dictator's heart and saw a good soul. (Besides, Bush has modeled much of his statecraft on the Putin model, and it wouldn't do for him to overturn his role model. Did Hitler attack Mussolini? Did Mao go after Stalin?) North Korea will be safe as long as they continue to act crazy, and the Saudis can go right on pumping oil, and the Pakistanis can continue building nuclear weapons and solidifying their wonderful junta. None of Bush's rhetoric means anything to any country whose name doesn't begin with the letters IRA-. And even then, all Bush will do is invent some crisis in IRA- so he can kill a buttload of people, then allow the place to fall into civil war because he couldn't be bothered to plan.

Among Bush's many, many, many flaws is that he seems to think that caring about something means repeating over and over that you care about something. Of course it doesn't. Actual caring involves work and sacrifice. It means you go out of your way for whatever it is you claim interest in. To me, hearing George Bush tell me he cares about freedom is like hearing Weyerhauser tell me about its commitment to preserving forests or seeing an ad from Chevron telling me about their commitment to clean air and water. It's all crap. Occasionally well-written crap, but crap nonetheless.

UPDATE 1/22/05: Gee, that was fast. It sometimes take them a whole week to reverse themselves while pretending they didn't reverse themselves. Just remember, gang. Oceania was always at war with Eastasia, since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, always the same war without end.

Posted: Fri - January 21, 2005 at 04:56 AM        

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