Is George Bush really that bad? It dawned on me yesterday, as I was...well, doing nothing...that I have some striking things in common with the President.
OK, bust this.
1. His name is George, mine is Georgia.
2. His birthday is July 6th, just a few days off from mine.
3. He's a Cancer, I'm a Cancer.
4. He was rejected from law school, I'm in law school.
5. He never served in the military, neither have I.
6. He acts like the youngest in his family, I am the youngest in my family.
7. He has a dog, I have a dog.
8. He's famous for his Bushisms, I'm famous for my typos.
9. His favorite ice cream flavor is pralines and cream, and that's kind of my favorite.
10. His favorite color is blue, and I like blue.
11. He's President, and I've been President. Well, of like clubs and stuff.
See??? And the more I thought about it, the more that epiphany dawned on me, and I felt a coldness seize my spine and my heart jumped to my throat and I thought...Oh, God.
I'm like George W. Bush.
And then mind started racing. All the talk of Bush as the Antichrist, Bush as the Murder, Bush as The Worst President Ever....have we wrongly been villanizing him? He's just a normal person. People have accused him of leading too much with his heart and not with his head, but gosh, people have accused me of the same exact thing. We're Cancers, that's how we operate. So when I thought about Bush talking about how he gets this "gut" feeling, and he can't explain it, I thought wow, I get the same exact thing sometimes.
I started to empathize with him. Poor George. I feel for ya. I could imagine being in the same position, sitting in the Oval Office, with a big bowl of pralines & cream, mulling over how to spell "unmistakably," wondering why the world hates me when all I've done is "work hard."
All this hatred towards him. I mean, real hatred. A hatred so palpable it's been projected upon poor little dogs. Hating this man, this guy that so resembles me, the average person, well, isn't that a bit like hating myself?
Then I started freaking out. Oh.My.God. What if all this "opposition" towards George is just a way to define myself in the great void of existence? What if I needed to perceive him as this miserable failure in order to cast myself in a better light? So I could wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and cheer myself up by saying, "Well, Georgia, at least you're not George Bush!" What if I made him the yin to my yang--or the yang to my yin--just for my own selfish reasons?
How can George be that bad if I am so much like him? He's just a pretzel-choking,, joke-cracking normal type of guy. Not an evil monster, but a good ol' chap, who makes some mistakes, just like the rest of us...who falls off bikes and segways, who ok, launches the occasional war, but it's all to defend America, right?
George & Georgia. Just two normal folks, "workin' hard" because taking care of business is "hard work." Just two people, remarkably similar, trying to make the world a better place. A couple FUBARs here and there, but that's life. And it's unfair then to say that Bush sucks.
I am like George W. Bush. I let the thought simmer in my mind a bit, I pondered it over a bowl of pralines & cream. And I got scared, because I thought, well, gee, if we're so alike, what if people turn on me one day like they've turned on him? After all, I'm just like George W. Bush!
But then I remembered I'm not an arrogant-asshole -war criminal who thinks he's the Second Coming, bribes journalists, squanders money , profits off the deaths of innocents, makes traitors out of American citizens, and whose cocky immaturity has obliterated 200 yrs of American good will...and phew...
Did I feel better about myself!
Have a great day everyone, and remember, You're Not George Bush!
Update [2005-1-16 11:10:58 by georgia10]:: Modified some similarities. See! I really am not like Bush! I can admit to my mistakes!
Update [2005-1-16 12:56:41 by georgia10]:: Changed the title. 'Cause I felt like it. Re-reading the other one was kind of freaking me out ;)
