“The Weekend At Bernies Presidency”

* an australian editorial (if i'm not mistaken, the author is a monied TV hack): "

In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.

"I'm the decider and I decide what's best," he squawked to reporters in the White House rose garden the other day, as the screws turned tighter on his disastrous Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Can you imagine Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy blurting something like that?

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This is a trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant ideological crackpottery.

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The moment we hear (our PM, Howard) blather that no decision has been made for war (in Iran), that everyone is working for a peaceful solution to the Iran crisis - that's when we know the SAS (special forces) is already there."

* comment at fdl: "At multiple pollings in the low 30%. Bush has officially entered into “The Weekend At Bernies Presidency”."