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George W. Bush: inferior man
Tim Lloyd, tlloyd@smu.edu
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: Opinion
In college, George Walker Bush was a male cheerleader. George wasn't an athlete, he didn't serve in the defining military conflict of his generation, and like so many rich white people, before and after him, he could not avoid the allure of cocaine to help him cope with his feelings of impotence and shame.
Fortunately for us, the American people, God intervened and pulled George out of the dark recesses of drug addiction and moral disgrace, so he could go on to lead his country into the most disastrous military campaign in the history of the world. What an absolute crock of shit.
How can the public entrust the supreme command of the military, the greatest military in the world, to a man so haunted by his lack of masculinity and preponderance of cowardice? The answer is this: a false prosperity blinds the people and threatens to exterminate civilization.
Starting with the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, modernization and technological sophistication have given birth to a luxury consumer culture that rapes the foundations of cultural and imperial greatness, as it slowly but surely castrates the masculine imperative. The end result is an illusory modern world governed by the mind control mechanisms of Oprah Winfrey, Sex and the City and Cosmopolitan magazine, which all too often find an easy-to-subvert-and-manipulate audience.
America needs change. America needs order. The first measure our government needs to take is amending the constitution so only candidates who have served in battle may be worthy to glorify the dignity, the honor, and the grace of the American presidency.
Only a leader familiar with both, civilian life and military struggle is suited to wear the mask of command. The world wasn't forged by cupcakes, ice cream socials and pep rallies. No, instead the iron chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, was right when he prophesized to the Prussian parliament, "this policy cannot succeed through speeches and shooting-matches and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron!"
Fortunately for us, the American people, God intervened and pulled George out of the dark recesses of drug addiction and moral disgrace, so he could go on to lead his country into the most disastrous military campaign in the history of the world. What an absolute crock of shit.
How can the public entrust the supreme command of the military, the greatest military in the world, to a man so haunted by his lack of masculinity and preponderance of cowardice? The answer is this: a false prosperity blinds the people and threatens to exterminate civilization.
Starting with the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, modernization and technological sophistication have given birth to a luxury consumer culture that rapes the foundations of cultural and imperial greatness, as it slowly but surely castrates the masculine imperative. The end result is an illusory modern world governed by the mind control mechanisms of Oprah Winfrey, Sex and the City and Cosmopolitan magazine, which all too often find an easy-to-subvert-and-manipulate audience.
America needs change. America needs order. The first measure our government needs to take is amending the constitution so only candidates who have served in battle may be worthy to glorify the dignity, the honor, and the grace of the American presidency.
Only a leader familiar with both, civilian life and military struggle is suited to wear the mask of command. The world wasn't forged by cupcakes, ice cream socials and pep rallies. No, instead the iron chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, was right when he prophesized to the Prussian parliament, "this policy cannot succeed through speeches and shooting-matches and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron!"
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Andrew Baker
posted 2/01/07 @ 3:45 PM CST
I'm sure many would take issue with the author's characterizing of the Iraq War as "the most disastrous military campaign in the history of the world. (Continued…)
amy ebersole
posted 9/17/08 @ 1:34 AM CST
Tim - brilliant
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