Why Does George Bush Sr. Hate America?

Well, I'm glad to be back to blogging, after a long (and unintended) break due to the dreaded Real Life Attack syndrome. I went to my first protest (a truly wonderful experience, though I left when our side's wingnuts began baiting the cops), ran a lot of errands, did some other writing, and spent time with my family.

Meanwhile, however, life goes on. And sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction:

...the news from College Station, Texas, this week -- that the First Father, former President George H.W. Bush, has given his own most treasured award to Senator Edward Kennedy -- is nearly as astonishing.

When it was announced (with amazingly little fanfare) that the pugnaciously anti-Iraq war Democrat Kennedy had been awarded the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service, so many jaws dropped all over Washington that usually voluble politicians were only heard swallowing their real thoughts.

Since the current President Bush veered away from the real war against terrorism in Afghanistan and went a'venturing in Iraq, much to his father's dismay, just about everybody close to Washington politics has known of the policy schism between father and son.

Maybe this Valerie Plame business has upset Poppy a little. Those familiar with him may recall that he has an aversion to people who betray American operatives.

Or perhaps it's his son's deceitful, unilateral war in Iraq. The PNAC crusaders who pushed this conflict are anathema to the old diplomat, as is their rude and belligerent style.

Then again, it could be the Orwellian style that the administration uses to spin facts into oblivion and shamelessly deceive the American people. Bush the First was a lot of things, but by political standards he was a pretty straight shooter.

Whatever the reason, he just threw sonny-boy over his knee and spanked him hard. Good for Poppy. It's about time someone did it.

(/) Roland X
Yeah, I'm a two-fisted liberal. Sanity first, ideology second, however.