George “Dubya” Hits a Record Low
It looks as if America is finally figuring it out. It only took eight years, two wars (with a third being drummed up as you read this), thousands of national casualties, and hundreds of thousands of foreign national casualties, with millions displaced, economic hardship, recession and the cost of it all soaring into the stratosphere. That is one steep learning curve.
According to a Times/Bloomberg poll reported by the L.A. Times, 73% of Americans disapprove of the American President George W. Bush. That leaves him with a 23% approval rating. That is certainly not enough to maintain a position on American Idol, and, one should concede, not enough to maintain any credibility as a diplomat and politician. Unfortunalty, Bush’s rhetoric and his “Chicago School of Economics” policies are still accepted and repeated by the major news stations of America. Therein lies the real danger. It is not enough to recognize the mistakes of the last eight years, and shake your head with the sad realization that the wool had been pulled over the eyes of the American public for so long. A lesson, albeit painful and expensive, must be internalized, and the mistakes must not be made again.
If only the approval ratings of Bush could be further directed at the agencies and individuals who promulgate his particular school of thought.
Stumble It!
What really strikes me about this, and particularly the American Idol comment, is that democratic politics is essentially an American Idol process were the performers do not write there own lyrics, and the substance of the song essentially does not matter. Politics is about the art of performing and Bush can no longer do this although he was masterful before. Furthermore, much like the American Idol performers, these shallow performances start to get old when people realize there is no substance to the charade; however, thankfully, a new charade will come along that will batardize the art of the song writers and those people actually writing important stuff on world affairs.