Hold The Videos

This morning for several reasons I watched videos which show the president making a fool of himself. At first I wondered if these were modified electronically to make Mr. Bush look really bad. For instance, there were three in which clearly he was drunk at press conferences. There were two where he was picking his nose almost up to his elbow. In a number of videos he did verbal bloopers. After a while it occurred to me that these videos span quite a bit of time. Then something else...I reflected that anyone caught on film as much as this man will surely be at a disadvantage from time to time. Finally, I found myself thinking that he's kind of a likeable guy, no pretense, none of that pompous ass stuff one finds so thick on the ground in the presence of politicians. He may be a corn pone, a drinker, a nose picker, a person who gets his tongue tangled, but he does laugh at himself. I had to quit watching in case what I saw influenced me to stop scorning the man.

The theme of each video was that President Bush is mentally defective. Hm...maybe so, but he's more likeable than John Kerry. God, please, don't let the Democrats pick another undead candidate like that. Such people may be worthy, they may be intelligent, they may not embarass us in public, but I don't like them. So, in the interest of electing Democrats next time, I hope these videographers give it up, stop, let it go. The thing is that even when he's being a dope, President Bush, in all these videos, comes across as a human being, not as a detestable blowhard. Watching him I got an Alfred E. Neumann-went-to-Washington kind of feeling, but it wasn't entirely a bad thing.