Kids who pull wings off flies

by Liberal Eagle

Jonathan Schwarz notes that George W. Bush, apparently, asked no questions of the Iraq study group, and was remarkably uninquisitive about the finer details of Iraq before he invaded it.

But, he further notes, Bush is, according to Ron Suskind, very interested in every last sordid detail of how we're torturing prisoners:

“He was interested in a very specific, granular way all the time. He was constantly asking folks inside of CIA, ‘What’s happening with interrogations? Are these techniques working? Can we trust what we get?’ The president … is involved — some people say too involved — in the granular day-to-day grit of this war on terror.”

Schwarz concludes, depressingly and I think correctly, that "Not only is the president of the United States an eight year-old, he’s an unpleasant eight year-old, the kind you’d want the guidance counselors to keep an eye on."

This is something I've always hated about George Bush. I've never understood why so many people found him a "decent" and "likable" guy. To me he's just always come off as a smirking, macho frat boy, a rich kid who thinks the world should kiss his butt, a spoiled brat who's been shielded from the consequences of his actions and from any experience that might have made him a better person. Basically, Bush reminds me of any number of people I've loathed over the years.

Above, see George Bush, illegally sucker-punching a guy in the face for no discernible reason, in a Yale rugby match.

The fact that this aspect of his personality was underreported in both his campaigns, in which reporters behaved like those horrible little toadies who suck up to mean jocks in school, is the press's lasting shame. That George Bush has reached the age of 60 without becoming a better person than this, still fascinated with torture and bored by the lives and deaths of people his policies affect, is his lasting shame.

That we as a country would allow him two terms, when it was in our power to at least hold him to one, is our lasting shame.