A couple of days ago our lord and savior George W. Bush said a word that most everyone in America has either heard, used, or both heard and used for a good part of their adult lives. Or maybe your childhood. Who am I to judge? Anyway he said this word at the G8 summit during a conversation with England’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, while discussing the current crisis in the middle east. That word was sh*t, only without the asterisk because I’m not sure how you would even go about saying that. People are acting like this is the most shocking and horrible thing President Bush has ever done.
People want to know why such a conversation was being held with microphones and cameras nearby. Well you can’t expect the president to worry about using discretion in a situation like that. What situation? A scheduled informal luncheon/press conference where cameras and microphones from worldwide press outlets would be used. He can’t worry about there being the possibility that what he might say might be recorded by cameras or microphones that were in plain sight of everyone in attendance. Besides, if you’ve the seen the video footage, he was too busy buttering up a roll and feeding his insatiable Texas sized appetite! Yee-haw! That’s a lot for a man of his political stature or intellectual capacity to handle all at once. “Ok. Butter the roll first. Talk to this crazy English guy and then talk with my mouthful and go ahead and not curse. It’s too much for me to handle! Awww sh*t!”
In all honesty I don’t know why people are so shocked by this. I mean, yeah, he should have maybe acted a little more ‘presidential’ I suppose. However if you think that him saying sh*t is shocking, let me point something out that personally is more shocking than uttering an expletive.
He exercised his veto power for the first time in six years recently to halt federal funding to advance embryonic stem cell research. Take that crippled children and Alzheimer’s patients! You know, when Nancy Reagan, the wife of arguably the biggest conservative hero of all time, asks you to please not veto a bill as the experiments with stem cell research will possibly save lives, and you ignore that request, that is, well, not surprising at all actually. I mean it is George W. Bush after all. He does label himself as pro-life so it was expected coming from a man with such obvious clear cut morals.
However, because of something called ‘logic’, I don’t think you can be pro-life and pro-war or pro-life and pro-death penalty. That’s like saying you’re not racist but you still hate those pesky Asians. It doesn’t work that way. Perhaps pro-lifers should find a new term for themselves, if their being pro-life conflicts with other views they may have. A term more specific and less all encompassing of all things that would indicate ones being entirely and unabashedly protecting of life in any form. Like ‘anti-abortion but pro death penalty’ or ‘ person who is pro-life before it begins but once you’re out you’re on your own’ or ‘hypocrite’. I like that last one the best.
Just a side note to the veto of yesterday. After President Bush vetoed the bill he was surrounded by babies and toddlers who began life as frozen embryos and were later adopted. I call them ‘kidsicles’. I thought it was interesting, at least from what I saw that none of the ‘kidsicles’ were in a wheelchair and all of them seemed to be standing. Probably because we don’t have cures for crippling diseases like those suffered by hundreds of thousands of wheelchair bound people worldwide. If only there was some sort of way to make sure diseases like that could be treated and possibly cured one day to ease the pain of people all over the world. Oh. Right. I forgot. That’s not pro-life at all. That’s more of a ‘pro make people’s lives less painful and worth living’ stance.
At least with the veto we now know where God stands on this issue. How do I know that? Because apparently God talks directly to George W. Bush. I guess God forgot to tell him about loving thy neighbor but that’s just semantics at this point. It’s easier to pick and choose what to believe.
Let’s not forget his thinly veiled callousness involving his sending our soldiers to die for a cause based on lies. As of this writing there are 18,988 wounded American soldiers and 2,554 American soldiers who never made it back as a result of the war. Let’s not forget about the Iraqis who are so happy we came over there. Just ask them. I mean there are 39,520 Iraqis who probably aren’t too happy we showed up, but they’re dead now so it’ll be kind of hard to ask them. I wonder if they were pro-life.
The President cares about nothing more than being right. Well, that and protecting life by his definition. To him life begins before it starts but once it starts he could care less. He sends soldiers to die for what exactly? He holds the record for most death penalties being carried out as governor for what again? He was even so concerned with protecting life that he went ahead and ignored clear cut warnings that 9-11 was going to take place. But it’s cool because I suppose when all you care about is maintaining the quality of your own life, it’s easy to not care about anyone else’s. I do think it may become more and more difficult with the passing of time for him to claim he is pro-life what with the blood of so many people on his hands. There is no soap strong enough to remove those stains.
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SONG – String Quartet in F Major by The Ysaye Quartet - I’m not that refined to truly appreciate classical music. Want proof? That’s the song from the opening credits from The Royal Tenenbaums. That’s how I know it. I’m a moron.
- Joel David