That's all I got.
Watching W. speechify is like buying into this crazy game of Polish Limbo (I can say that because I'm Of The Peopleski), where the contestant just keeps whining and blustering until the bar gets set lower and lower and then he just skips right over it and declares himself the winner.
Then the pundits all chime in and give the lunacy a bogus bouquet of legitimacy.
I try and come up with new ways to watch his speeches ...
... with minimal psychic trauma (turn off sound, trick myself into watching snippets by switching back and forth from the SciFi channel, timing how long it takes before I throw something at the teevee and giving myself a prize if I can hold out longer than a minute ...), but today it just made me sad.
This is our P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T?
I look at this puppet shell of a hypocritical bully, and I just shake my head.
What kind of twisted trick has our society bought in to that this type of behavior, this perverted hijacking of integrity and intelligent discourse and responsible policy is somehow acceptable?
It's like that feeling I got during the first debate with Kerry, that W's inadequacies were SO blatant that the collective scales would fall from everyone's eyes and we would all shake ourselves out of this bad dream and send the bum packing back to Crawford where he belongs. And live happier ever after.
The nightmare continues and today it just makes me sad.
That's all I got.