Why You’ll Love George Bush When He’s Gone
WHEN George Bush goes, you’ll love him. Stanley Fish agrees:
Now I would like to enter these treacherous waters again and venture another prediction: within a year of the day he leaves office, and no matter who succeeds him, George W. Bush will be a popular public figure, regarded with affection and a little nostalgia even by those who voted against him and thought he was the worst president in our history.
Does anyone really dislike George Bush the person, or just disagree with what he represents? He’s hard not to like…
Meanwhile, does anyone like Tony Blair, the worthy, humble, vain, greedy religion-on-his sleeve, pleasing, warmongering, creepy, grinning hero of the once bereft Left? Maybe when he goes, we will.
He’s always been so very hard to like, and remains so…
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Posted: 29th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, George Bush, Politicians, The Blairs Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
no - he just pauses occasionally, giving that impression….
September 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am
George thinks?
September 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Never fear, you at least have some hope of escaping the Mother of All Moose Murderers on your outings.
I get the impression that even George thinks she a whacko…
September 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I too have very little good to say about George, having lived under his tyranny for the last eight years. But I get the feeling that if I went hunting or fishing with him, and we didn’t talk politics, I would probably have a good time and end up liking him personally.
Of course, the hunting trip would have to be without Dick Chaney, he’s a dangerous man to hunt with.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Well yes, though I’m not sure that TB was solely responsible for this. A stonking majority and massive dissatisfaction with the Tories who had opposed it for so long did help…
September 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Like or loathe Tony Blair at least he brought in the minimum wage, after years of resistance by the conservative party.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Well, his language can certainly be somewhat oblique.
Scholars a century from now will still be questioning just what he meant by ‘this suckers going down’…
September 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I miss George already. He may not have been the best person for the job, but in terms of pure comedy gold, he’s been pretty much unbeatable.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’m glad someone knows where i’m coming from….I thought all hell was gonna break loose….
September 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
You have a point.
In theory I should loathe George Bush, and I do indeed loathe much of what he has done.
But I feel no personal antagonism in the way that I do to Tony Blair, whom I would cheerfully offer up as a hostage to the Somalian pirates, sorry, environmental activists, in exchange for the entire crew, and not worry overmuch about the possibility of the pirates blowing up the ship with him still on it…
September 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I think there is a modicum of truth in this story. Bush after all has proved at times he is just human whereas some of ours just carry on their cold, robotic, steely and arrogant attitudes to further their own gains. Bush, through all his faults, does seem to have his people and their interests at heart somehow. Don’t ask me why this is so it just seems to be. There must be a modicum of truth in what I say otherwise this story wouldn’t exist now would it