Like millions of Americans, I saw President Bush being continuously booed by 60,000 of his fellow citizens, as he threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game, on Sunday. My immediate reaction was one of embarrassment for him. Nobody should have to endure public humiliation on that scale. It was a momentary feeling. It passed, like painful intestinal gas.
The President is not laid up in some VA rehab facility, missing some limbs, most of his face and a large chunk of frontal lobe. He's not an AIDS sufferer, deciding which $234 worth of the $1320 in anti viral medications he needs to stay alive, he will purchase this month. He's not the head of a family in Cleveland, about to be foreclosed out of their 80 year old ramshackle bungalow that nobody else wants, in a neighborhood where every other house is already a gutted, windowless wreck. He's not an 11 year old Indian girl, living on a reservation sans casino, out in the four corners, who already is more blase about sex than a Marseillaise street whore and walks 12 miles each way, every Friday, to buy her father a gallon of wine.
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Bush deserves every bit of scorn that is heaped upon him. I have watched several "you tube" presentations of him walking out to the pitchers mound and he didn't take it well.
He's living in his own little coocon,
and he deserves contempt. He's the only US President to start a war to ensure his re-election as a "war president."
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