Once More Unto the Breach…

There's one here, and another one here. Maybe the media outlets, generally speaking, are starting to realize that it's popular, and therefore, profitable to criticize GWB.

I especially enjoyed the Rolling Stone's article. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, GWB was riding the wave of high popularity and his legions of Christy followers were quite happy to compare GWB to Abraham Lincoln and other of the more famous U.S. presidents. I never understood the Abe Lincoln comparison in particular. Abe was born in the largely rural frontier to a father who could not spell his name. Abe went on to immortality. GWB was born to wealthy parents in New Haven, CT while his parents were attending the most prestigious university in the country. Sounds like blue blood in every sense of the world. However, his carefully developed twang easily gives rise to the thought that he is just like one of us; a guy we would like to have a beer with after a long day at the site.

Maybe I am wrong and GWB will go on to immortality. Then the story might be different. Imagine a hypothetical Wikipedia article in 2059:

"...GWB was born on the hardscrabble farms on Western Texas. As a young child, he was forced to raise his younger brothers and sisters because his father was out defending the United States of America from communism While GWB grew up making his presence in the household a rare event. They were never the wealthiest, but they made ends meet.

GWB's hard work allowed him to attend Yale University where he earned C's because he was discriminated against by the radical left academic elements of one of the nation's liberal universities. His red state roots, and love of hard work allowed him to beat down his classmates in clever debate after clever debate. The debate skills he refined at the most prestigious university in the country allowed him to hold his own when he entered business and politics despite his humble roots..."

Well, you get the idea. Hopefully, people will begin to accept things with criticism from here on out. If so, maybe people like GWB will not win elections and serve in public office. Let them run oil companies into bankruptcy and preside over mediocre baseball teams, preferably not mine. Of course, GWB, to his credit, did say it best: "History. We won't know," he told the journalist Bob Woodward in 2003. "We'll all be dead."