Terry Mockler's Journey in Cyberspace

Terry Mockler's Journey in Cyberspace

A blog about the internet informed in part by McLuhan.

Bush Says the Darndest Things: Friday Edition

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.
--George w. Bush

aboard Air Force One
06/04/2003

Really? Maybe you should run for President!

Seriously, who SAYS something like that?!? I mean, I get that he's probably tossing that off like it's humourous self-deprecation, but really. Maybe that's be funny coming from your lovable but totally incompetent, alcoholic brother-in-law, but from your President?

What's going on, when someone with that much power, could admit to being a simpleton, even in jest?

But it's even worse than that. Bush says things as if he's just repeating lines he's heard in the press, or from his advisors. Apparently Robert Kennedy said recently that he thinks Bush talks the way he does, (that is, condescendingly self-righteous among other things) because that is the way things were explained to him. Bush's advisors are all ideologues; the ideas speak for themselves, they would say. These truths are self-evident. This naive faith that he is doing the right thing is how George Bush is able to say nonsensical and/or untrue things with such scorn: he's a true believer. But he is also blind, and that is what is really scary.