Dubya Unchained?
By amba | Related entries in Elections, General PoliticsDid you watch the president’s first press conference, the one that began, “Why all the glum faces?”
Humility becomes him, doesn’t it? He sounded like a different person — far more real. The cockiness is gone, along with that contradictory little undertone of appeal — I don’t know quite how to describe it. When Dubya spoke he always sounded as if he was struggling to defy and ingratiate at the same time. He’d heavy-breathe with the effort — I always visualized cartoon drops of sweat flying from his brow — then smile to measure the effect of what he’d said, with a mixture of doubt and brazen daring.
That Bush is just . . . gone. That one sounded like Mighty Mouse on a trapeze. This one sounds like he has his feet on solid, modest, common ground. And I wondered . . . am I imagining it, or . . .
Rush Limbaugh said, “I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried.”
Do you think Bush feels liberated too? Do you think he is relieved? Has the election released him from the thrall of an ideological cabal who didn’t really suit him? Is he, on some level, glad that his handlers, minders, jailers, have been proven wrong?
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November 10th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Well, when Kinky Friedman was a guest on Letterman last week, he said the Prez was a friend of his and that he was a “good man trapped in the body of a Republican.” So maybe Kinky knows what he’s talking about.
Or maybe the election results were like being hit over the head with a large clue-by-four and his advisors told him to find another line of malarkey fast.
Anyway, I feel the country itself has been released from the thrall of an ideological cabal that didn’t really suit us, and I hope we don’t screw it up.
November 10th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
No Holding Back
When Republicans had both houses of Congress it was actually quite a burden. But now the gloves can come off and for the first time in 12 years we don’t have to hold back any longer. We can tell you what we really think and we are ecstatic about our …