The Incredible vanishing President

[COLGATE4]

On a day when the stock market hemorrhaged another 400+ points to leave pensioners and investors with their life savings in 401K's down more than 1000 total points and two of the largest four investment banks either folded or sold themselves for pennies on the dollar, when the giant insurer AIG had to be nationalized (much like Chavez's nationalization of Oil in Venezuela) and when Texas and Gulf Coast States were ravaged by a series of devastating hurricanes and with the national economy posed on a knife edge towards going into a meltdown similar to 1929, George Bush is conspicuous by his absence.

A President can only affect the economics of a nation on a long term basis. But when an economic crisis unfolds which, bad as it is is also clearly exacerbated by an overall crisis of confidence, it is clearly the President's role - and duty = to use his best efforts to instill and restore that confidence. It is said that there are only two emotions that rule Wall Street - Fear and Greed, and Fear is clearly in the Driver's seat right now.Think Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his first 100 days. The measures his government took then had little direct effect for months, possibly years after their enactment, but the fact that they were enacted gave the nation and financial markets confidence, and set the stage for an economic recovery. They stopped the bleeding.

George Bush could have done that, but this pathetic little poseur of a man has finally been caught up to and caught out out by History. No longer able to get away with playing his favorite role of "Commander in Chief", President Flight Suit realized that the posturing he so enjoyed and milked after the tragedy of 911 just won't fly this time. So, instead of facing up to reality and at least making an attempt to do the right thing by his country and his people, he instead once again takes the easy,"Kennebunkport" way out - make yourself scarce and let others take the heat and/or do the clean up.

In Shakespeare's MacBeth, MacBeth asks for the execution of his enemy to be described to him: "Nothing so became him in his life as the leaving of it" reports MacBeth's observer of the execution. So it is for George W. Bush - nothing so describes this small, empty suit of a President as his last acts in the Presidency, vanishing without leaving a trace behind.

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Well said.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Well put

Truely, GWB will be the gold standard of stupidity. Unlike his past competitors, he's captured in living color. Too bad for him....good for us.

[Alcibiades]

3. That wasn't MacBeth.

It was Duncan. And Malcolm's report isn't simply to say that it's good that Cawdor is dead, but that he died well.

I do agree with you, however. Wherever Bush is, he's drunk.

[spindrifter]

4. You are right--the President fails us once again. If

he truly lived up to the captains of commerce ideals of his party, he would be trying to instill confidence in the people--confidence that he could claim would be maintained by those in his party who wish to succeed him. What a poor advertisement for his Harvard MBA.

But perhaps acting as the chief financial confidence-builder cum cheerleader is not on the same level as landing on the flight deck of an air craft carrier in a presidential-seal bearing military jacket and declaring the mission accomplished. Perhaps he knows only too well that there is not really grounds for confidence right now...his legacy of failure.

[Diclotican]

5. Coldgate4

Coldgate4

You can run, but you can not hide is a proverb I am thinking about, when it come to mr Bush.... He know his legacy is in the gutter, and what ever the republican Party are telling them self, and trying to tell the rest of the world, the miserable failure his action have given US, and the world is all there all to se.. Mr Bush have been a failure in every task and every business he ever had a finger to.. Today he even have managed to screw the US economy, to the brink of another catastrophe as the recession of the 1929... And that is not bad for a President who heritages a little fortune in 2000.... Even the IOU debt to another country was on the down when he was coming into office... Today the debt is projected to more than 10 billion US dollar when he is leaving the office.. And it is no way the debt would be more easy when the next president have been into office a year.. Another trillion would be given the next president less leverage against the problems than this excuse for a man had

He is very afraid, an should be that.. Because if the american public get their hand on his neck, it is more than possible that his neck would break in the prosess... That is maybe therefore he and the Vice President do have the legions of "security guards" when they leave office.. Because they KNOW that the economy would force the american public to get to the truth.. And the truth is that the current administration have been destroying every thing US once was standing for.. International as national..

He have been a caricature of an man, he have always been "good" at posturing.. But nothing more.. He is as the emperor without clot.. Or some old kings who fear their surroundings. Because they know it he surroundings ever was to se their weakness, their defenseless, the whole Enterprise and everything the they are, would be destroyed... And them self more than possible be killed and replaced by some one else...

Why do you think some of the old roman emperors was fearing dark corners?.. Why do you thing that they could kill whole families, in the name of "Protection".?. Why do you believe that the old russian proverb "near the tsar, near the death" have been there for more than 1000 year?. Because it is true.. So very true...

Mr Bush can't kill people just because they "can" be a danger to his position, he could not either execute everyone he won't to be silenced. But he can put people in prison for ever.. He can today send everyone he wanted to a early grave by torture or by prison camps both inside and outside of the US.. He is the closest US ever have been a real dictator... And he have been very clear about it also... When he was asked, some month after he was sworn in as the President if the duty as President was difficult.. And the answer is that this job would be far more easy if he was the dictator...

Mr Bush would regardless of what happened next bee seen as a failure.. He can't even se the american public in the aye, and tell them with a strait face that he honestly have been doing his best... The documentation of his failures is mounting.. So big that even many republicans are smelling all the shit, and turning their back on him...

Hopefully the next president is capable of making some way against the tide of miserable failure as the current president is going out off office.. Hopefully the next president would revoke everything that the current administration have been given the pass as "law in the land". Hopefully the next president can give the american public a little HOPE of what is the future.. Exactly now, the whole case is bad, very bad and I fear the turbulence from US would also been felling in every single corner in the world..

I fear what would come out of this miserable failure of an presidency.. But I have a hope, that even in the dark, the future would be better, and that US would came out of this, in a greater shape, than it is today.. And not at least.. Free from the neo-con madness... Like the German was learning the hard way, that the nazi st was not good... The US have at least the possibility to clean it out, without the help of an ww3

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english not my native language

[yurbud]

6. that's the way he came in. for months, the press kept talking about Clinton as if he was still...

in office.

They didn't even notice Bush was in office until he started to fuck things up and they needed to cover for him.