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Is It OK To Hate Bush? : In which the president's carefully orchestrated dumb-guy shtick proves hollow and dubious (Mark Morford, June 7, 2002, SF Gate)

So then, please do not openly hate Mr. Bush or call him names or believe his decisions are all too often terribly detrimental to the progress of the human animal. He is too nice. He is too dumb. He is too nicely dumb, in a really smart way. Clever, isn't it? Aww, shucks.

This despicable column nicely expresses the schizophrenia that the Left has forced on itself by assuming that George W. Bush is a complete idiot. First of all, it's just not very nice in Left-wing circles to pick on the handicapped. Second, if he really is as stupid as they say then you can't really blame him for anything. It's kind of like when Bill Clinton flew home to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, the death row inmate who'd damaged his own brain trying to commit suicide. The guy was so incompetent that the story goes that he said he'd save the ice cream that came with his last meal "for later", just before he was led away to meet his maker. Even a capital punishment advocate can feel a twinge of guilt about that one, and many Democrats were repulsed..

If the Democrats though want us to believe that Bush is no smarter than Rickey Ray, then how can they convince us that he should be held responsible for the actions of his administration? And how can he be evil if he's that stupid?

Sometimes it's really hard to be so partisan, you know?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 12, 2002 8:27 PM