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President George Bush: what a crock

I'm listening to President Bush's press conference of April 29, 2008 on National Public Radio.

It's  apparent that this man is unfit to be the President. He's clearly not engaged with reality. And I suspect he is on drugs of some kind. He loses his "train of thought" and under his breath suspects a reporter of deliberately derailing him. At one point, he really didn't have an answer for the reporter's question, and you could hear as he stammered, waiting for the teleprompter to come up with some words to put in his mouth. What a joke.

Bush doesn't  know much about anything, so the best he can do is parrot the  soundbite-friendly snippets coming from his teleprompter. You can hear it in his voice -— he stalls, then switches the topic to some plug for his policies, or an attack on the Democrats. It's completely false. This is really a crime against the American people, who are essentially denied a competent national leader. We practically have an idiot for a President, and I keep wondering — how did things get this bad? (Oh yeah, I remember now:  The illogical opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the 2000 presidential election, one of the worst and ill-reasoned opinions in US history.)

A reporter asks him a question about terrorism, and he puts in a bald-faced plug for John McCain. Is that what we have these press conferences for — not to answer important questions from the public (represented here by the press), but to slide in useless political endorsements?

And the way he jokes with reporters — this used to annoy me, but now I realize that it makes sense since the whole process is a joke, from Bush's perspective. This is nothing but the theater of the absurd. We have a baldly disfunctional man for a president, we're stuck with him despite repeated calls for impeachement, and we're all just riding it out.

My eggs are in the Obama basket now, that's for sure. Clinton has been showing some of the same shallow style that Bush mastered, which has turned me off. Obama is by far the most "thinking" person among the candidates, and that's who we need in the oval office. An exceptional nation like America need a national leader of exceptional character, not another "regular" folk.

Empty Printer Cartridges for Daniel Webster School (Potrero Hill)

Time to recycle all the printer empties. Your old inkjet and laser printer cartridges will help Daniel Webster Elementary School (Potrero Hill, San Francisco) to buy school supplies.

Drop off your empty inkjet or laser cartridges at the school office in the small admin building on Missouri Street between 19th and 20th streets during school hours. Your old printer cartridge empties can help out a Potrero Hill school. Bring in all you have, from home or office — it all helps.

And, a brief note on the polis: And while you're at it, tell your representatives in the government that you want the U.S. to invest more in public education. Let's raise the starting salaries for teachers to the high-five figures so we can attract the best teachers to the schools that need the most help. We can't fool ourselves any more — an uneducated population is bad for society.

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