The Standard Paragraph: Let Us Review

For some time now, we have been running The Standard Paragraph on the sidebar to save unnecessary re-blogging of our continuing contempt and outrage for the Bush Administration.

Now, as we look forward impatiently to the Obama era, I thought we might review the accuracy and foresight of this harsh commentary written several years ago.

Every day, President George W. Bush weakens and often breaks the laws of the United States of America,
in particular the Constitution of the United States he swore an oath to uphold.
In essence and action, he betrays American democracy.
His indifference to truth is only matched by his hostility to it.
He lies like a dead dog.


He has no interest in human freedom other than as a
magic ritual incantation word.
His incompetence is only interrupted by his arrogance, an arrogance onto which he is grafting a vile imprimatur of divinity.


He and his staff have deep contempt not only for his opponents but for their own ordinary supporters.


He works against the economic and social health of the great majority of the American people in order to benefit his wealthy personal associates.


He criminally stole one election and perhaps two.

His truncated intelligence and lack of imagination kills real people.

He is at heart and practice a drunk,
a coke fiend,
and a fraternity sadist,
embodying in one person all the worst qualities of American culture.


If his administration does not result in the waning of the United States as a great power and democratic beacon to the world,
or the eventual destruction of life on earth,
count it only as a mark of his limited abilities.
Every day, in every way, we hate him more and more.