Repetition Without Poetry: Bush Stays The Course In Unimaginative Dogma
October 26th 2006 06:27
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You wouldn't know that there's more to life than winning or losing if you were listening to President George W. Bush:
It smacks of an immature poetry reading. How much more black and white can you get? I'm surprised that I can still be surprised by the monotony and lack of depth to White House policy, but each week GWB manages to out-do himself in the 'barely there creativity' stakes.
The new word of the week, "benchmarks" was reportedly used thirteen times, which makes you wonder if Bush never mastered the art of paraphrasing. There are no specific details on his policy adjustment, merely an adamant claim that they've been formulated and are going to be enforced. It's amazing how little info this government deems fit to share with its public. What this does is to force the media to engage with the unimaginative right wing rhetoric, thereby dumbing down the discussions considerably. Bush leaves big gaps between his phrasings and seeks to compensate by stressing each offering, but I for one am not remotely impressed with his ability to handle complex information.
To quote political commentator Stephen Gyllenhaal*, "I don't believe George Bush is an evil man, or that even the people around him are evil (the "evil-doer" concept when applied to the complexity of a human being is hard for me to swallow.) I have watched them in office for the past six years and have come to realize they are nothing more than lost boys, frightened and therefore pugnacious, uninterested in sifting through conflicting, complex data because it makes decision making nearly impossible. It's pretty much impossible for all of us, none of us is handling the issues of our lives and our world very well and, frankly, I respect this administration for even trying. But in the end they have come at it like boys playing war, releasing their fears and frustrations at not being big enough by banging around and pretending with guns and posturing and dreaming of cowboy movies."
(You can read the rest of the article here.)
Now I think it's wonderful that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power, and I don't think the Iraq war was a bad idea at all, but I do not support the short-sightedness of this administration nor the lack of poetry in Bush's speech.
* the pic of Stephen Gyllenhaal is from www.thehuffingtonpost.com
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