Sympathy For THAT Devil
by pessimist
I happen to love satire, and it's been a while since I've seen much that really hits home politically. It used to be that such satirists and Mort Sahl and the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players could lampoon almost anyone for their foibles and the entire country would laugh. Such conditions are long gone in the Fourth Reich, and those who do express themselves in such a manner risk much, not excluding their lives.
But out there in the real world, there are still those who remember how to lampoon through satire, and I happened to discover one. Considering the content of this post, and an especially funny animated .gif on that page, I hope that the White House hasn't already contacted their local contract goons to see to it that this critical satirist is quickly silenced.
Sympathy for a Great Statesman: George W. Bush
Original Article (Spanish)
By Mario Fernando Prado
September 27, 2005
George Bush is unfortunate. Despite all of his selfless, noble efforts to save the Western world by force of arms, few people seem to appreciate it. But unconcerned with appearing intelligent or being popular - Bush soldiers on. One day, according to this op-ed article from Colombia’s El Pais, he will be placed on a pedestal, 'as one of humanity’s all time greats.'
President Bush is my North American hero. And the fact is that someone has to speak up in defense that misunderstood and much-maligned statesman, who is gambling everything for the sake of democracy and the survival of the Western world. Why, if those who wear the turbans can knock down two of his tremendous towers, doesn’t he have the right to knock down their tiny towers?
Now how can a progressive argue with that!
For all the sacrifices of George W. and for all that he has suffered and still suffers, carrying a piano like Iraq on his back, he will only be compensated by the eventual judgment of history. Can you imagine his sleeplessness, obsessing about his troops, for whom he prays and prays in eternal vigilance, beseeching God and imploring him for world peace? The dead of that war - U.S. and foreign - have been like stabs to the heart of a good boy who chose to do his duty by fighting that war - not to remain in Iraq - but not to return to his country either, without the coveted black gold [oil].
Bush is a man of action and few words, like any of Clint Eastwood’s memorable western characters: very little bla-bla-bla and lots of ta-ta-ta. His is the democracy that must defend and teach - like a soldier capturing the Palace of Justice - with armor, tanks, bombs and swords.Unconcerned with looking smart and winning public acclaim, he will leave a legacy that - I repeat - only with time will be recognized - when history places him on a pedestal as one of humanity’s all time greats.
He is an honorable man and does not deserve the unjust commentaries that have befallen him of late. A man who suspends his well-deserved vacation and leaves his ranch so abruptly - and we have already verified the neglect that this has caused (he almost forget to tune up his pick-up truck) - to attend to problems of State deserves the respect and the admiration of the free world. Could it be that he caused the tragedy of New Orleans? Could it be that Katrina or Rita were his inventions? Could it be that he didn’t have capable enough subordinates to handle the floods? Or perhaps he never called to get their advice?
It so happens that now, Bush has taken full responsibility for the irresponsibility of those who paid no heed to the evacuation orders and were later found dead, and for being unable to stop an enraged Mother Nature from attacking his land.Alien to that Latin American tradition of holding orphans, embracing widows and wasting time catering to matters of the heart, he is more often in the Oval Office, meditating and thinking up new strategies. However, when he was able, and when he was sure that there were no snipers that could bring down his helicopter, he went straight to the scene of the events, because whatever happens, he is George W., and he does not live in the background, hesitate to extinguish fires,nor turn back floodwaters.
He knows better than anyone that all problems - even spiritual ones - can be solved with a bill, and that is what he has obtained: hundreds of millions of dollars to attend to the tragedy. Some of the other issues he faces are tropical fever, crying crocodile tears and being forced to cluck 'I am sorry.'
Good for Bush. I myself hope he is elected three times more. And good for his lady, her daughters and their nieces – the very models of discretion - and even more for his father, handsome and old, and his mother Barbara, beautiful and old, who with her statements caused the critics to viciously attack her beloved son. Long live Bush!
Yes - a man who should forever live in infamy. I just hope that the world remembers this at least as long as the 101st Armchair Keyboardists remember and refight Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
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