13 January 2009
Deconstructing W? Why bother?
Just did a google blogs search for 'W Bush final press conference' and it coughed up 117, 548 hits. i know the majority of these writers are glad to see W leave DC, and i do support blogging as a form of self-therapy for depression or whatever else ails you, but what more is there to say about this guy after 8 dreadful years of "misunderestimating" him? (In case you're wondering about the non-word there, this was the term W used yesterday when queried on his relationship with the press.) i actually did watch the press conference - yes, all of it and definitely a first for me - a somewhat surreal event, it appeared that W was trying to do an imitation of Josh Brolin imitating him as a down to earth, infantilely reflective kind of guy. He said a lot of ridiculous things, which i'm sure most of those 117, 548 bloggers have all deconstructed ad infinitum; listening to his walk down presidential memory lane was like reliving a bad dream that started in Florida and finished up in the bowels of the US Treasury. The only segment in which he seemed truly sure of himself was in talking about security threats to the US and stamping out terrorism, bringing to mind a psychoanalysis i'd read years ago in which W as an inherently pathological personality was gone over with a finetooth comb. What the psychologist had said was that he is most sure of himself when talking about alpha male priorities: war, revenge, carrying the big stick. Is this what W himself had in mind yesterday when he described himself as a Type A personality? One can only speculate, but why bother? The only truly relevant comment i can offer on the occasion of George and Laura's relocation to Houston is this: have a nice trip and see you in court, and if he's not sure what his new business cards should look like, TV3 in Australia has already solved that problem:
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2 comments:
welcome back! i've read a little of the coverage of the press conference, and it struck me that if, seven years into his war on terror, terrorists are still biggest threat facing america, he really screwed up - even on his own terms.
want to ask your take on the carnage in gaza, but almost afraid to go there...
afraid? i can't imagine that you'd think i'd think it's time to pick up the qassam with hamas. but the whole situation does sicken me. i think this is the only conflict zone in the world in which military truces are declared without any progress towards final political agreements (was going to say 'settlements' but seemed tooo a propos). the israelis have once again drugged the world into accepting perpetual occupation as a positive alternative to bombing children until all the children are gone. palestinians need to seize the moment, yet i feel that's not happening at all, as many have come to accept the above analysis as truth. less victimhood, more vision!
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