President Rainman

[King Coal]

Does anyone have a link to an audio of Will Durst's President Rainman?

Bush's answer to every question (a la Rainman): "Iraq, yes definitely Iraq." How much is the war costing us? "100 dollars. About a 100 dollars."

I would love to hear that.

[musette_sf]

1. "Being There" was on cable last night

it was nice to imagine a benevolent idiot influencing the US, instead of the malevolent idiot we have now.

[spanone]

8. I think of Chauncey Gardner a lot when the bush* speaks.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I wish people would stop saying Bush is "stupid."

He's not stupid. He knows exactly what he's doing, and he knows exactly how to use the people around him to acheive his ends.

The more we push this "Bush is stupid" meme, the more people ignore things like PNAC, the secret energy meetings, the byzantine anti-Dem resons behind the phony SS crisis, etc.

Seriously: Bush is using his social failings as a CYA cloak; he stumbles on his words, and blue collar repub people, resentful of those in higher education, love it. And when he does something totally evil, those around him can play up his "dumbness;" they say, "How can Bush be behind such malevolence if he's as stupid as you say?"

Look behind the public persona. We're getting played.

[King Coal]

3. Nah. He couldn't find his ass with both hands. He's a puppet.

[JackRiddler]

5. I wish people would stop focusing on Bush the person

Come on, he's there because he's the son of Papa Bush. Obviously it's not HIM in power, it's a mob in every sense: a syndicate, a power network, an agent of other interests, an angry crowd, a brotherhood, a milieu, an office, a TEAM: all of these. A mob.

Junior's got just one role, and nothing in the program is anything that he came up with and decided. All was planned long ago, by many.

So many people HERE fall for the idea that the Iraq war is Bush's personal folly, that he might have decided otherwise if he wasn't such an asshole, when in fact it was all locked in by his crew before they even got into their current chairs -- when all the talk about dissent or Powell v. Wolfowitz is part of the act.

It's easy to see Junior's not too bright though crafty (in a visible kind of way) and entertaining to see him mangle speech (which one cannot possibly do intentionally in the way he does, there are too many instances of visible discomfort). But he often remembers his lines. He's easy to upset, but also often at ease with the challenge because he knows he's got an easy button: use some nickname, throw out some first-grade one-liner, pretend to be having fun, end the press conference.

He's not without significance, because of the appeal successfully crafted around him for large numbers of people, and the millenarian dimension of it for them. He's got power as a loyalty-inspiring figure, though it's quite mystifying to us. He's the star of the show, which means, the show relies on him while he's playing, but he's not the director, producer, writer, set designer, production manager or studio head. Stars are front-office employees.

[MsAnthropy]

6. I just finished the book "American Dynasty" and totally agree with you

all of this has been in the planning over four generations of the Bush/Walker mafia. The tentacles reach into every dark little crevice of America.

[nostamj]

4. I know he has a book out now...

not sure about a CD. check Randi Rhode's site.

[KissMeKate]

7. connecting him with autism is an insult to autistics.

hes a jagoff- and stupid to boot.