"Don't upset him"
GW Bush is most isolated President in modern history, if by "isolated" one means "clueless."
He is still steamed because his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Count imploded; he vented about it to African-American leaders who met with him last week to discuss racial issues and Katrina disaster relief -- prompting one of them to gently remind him that it was not African Americans but conservative Republicans who were her undoing.
Bush lives in a bubble, his mom makes him crucifix-shaped sandwiches, and he says the Pledge of Allegiance until his erection subsides. - headline at Fark.
Bush may be the most isolated president in modern history, at least since the late-stage Richard Nixon. It's not that he is a socially awkward loner or a paranoid. He can charm and joke like the frat president he was. Still, beneath a hail-fellow manner, Bush has a defensive edge, a don't-tread-on-me prickliness. Bush's joking is personal - it is aimed at you.
It is a towel-snap that invites a retort. How many people dare to snap back at a president?
Not many. In the Bush White House, disagreement is often equated with disloyalty.
Do you feel comfortable knowing that the fate of this world lies in the hands of a man who cannot face any criticism at all? Who refuses to learn bad news? Who appears not to have earned the kind of maturity most of us have achieved by the age thirty? - Echidne.
It is a towel-snap that invites a retort. How many people dare to snap back at a president?
Not many. In the Bush White House, disagreement is often equated with disloyalty.
Do you feel comfortable knowing that the fate of this world lies in the hands of a man who cannot face any criticism at all? Who refuses to learn bad news? Who appears not to have earned the kind of maturity most of us have achieved by the age thirty? - Echidne.
It gets worse:
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: Time Magazine says you're out there talking to people, and Newsweek says you're in here not talking to people. So what is the truth, Mr. President?"
Bush: "Well, I'm talking to you. You're a person."
Williams: "This says you're in a bubble, you have a very small circle of advisers now."
Bush: "Yeah."
Williams: "Is that true?"
Bush: "Uh."
Williams. "Do you feel in a bubble?"
Bush: "No, I don't feel in a bubble. I mean, you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife -- although I'm a man, I'm not going to tell you what I'm gonna buy her."
Bush: "Well, I'm talking to you. You're a person."
Williams: "This says you're in a bubble, you have a very small circle of advisers now."
Bush: "Yeah."
Williams: "Is that true?"
Bush: "Uh."
Williams. "Do you feel in a bubble?"
Bush: "No, I don't feel in a bubble. I mean, you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife -- although I'm a man, I'm not going to tell you what I'm gonna buy her."
Jebus.
Back at Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria 'piles on':
"Bush's travel schedule seems calculated to involve as little contact as possible with the country he is in. Perhaps the White House should look into the new teleconferencing technologies. If set up right, the president could soon conduct foreign policy without ever having to actually meet foreigners."
LOL. Gawd.
Pwnd!!
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