Boy President in a Failed World?
How the president's fantasy version of the world is driving events (and us) in unnerving directions.
By Tom Engelhardt
July 11, 2005
On Thursday morning, with the London bombings monopolizing the TV set, I watched our President take that long, outdoor, photo-op walk from the G-8 summit meeting to the microphones to make a statement to reporters. Exploding subways, a blistered bus, the dead, wounded, dazed, and distraught just then staggering through our on-screen morning, and there he was. He had his normal, slightly bowlegged walk, his arms held just out from his side in a fashion that brings the otherwise unusable word "akimbo" to mind. It's a walk -- the walk to the podium at the White House press conference, to the presidential helicopter, to the Rose Garden microphone -- that is now his well-practiced signature move. For some people, a tone of voice or a facial expression can tell you everything you need to know; that's how the President's walk acts for him. And nothing puts spine in that walk the way the war on terror does. Each horror is like a shot of adrenalin.For complete article: Mother Jones:
(White House photo by Eric Draper)
2 comments:
The headline indeed says it all. I heard a story on NPR this morning talked about the fact that the Republicans and the Pres are not in favor with the majority of Americans, but the Democrats can't seem to come up with anything to take advantage, and if the Reps can focus on terror again, they might win the midterm elections...
Ann,
True. If a-John Kerry-clone is the best the Democrats can do, I might sit out the next election.As I have said before, if the Democrats move to the right (thinking the Left has no place else to go), they will end up playing the Washington Generals to the Republicans Harlem Globetrotters. In other words they will go on losing, while providing the Republicans with the facade of competition.
Peace,
Dan
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