Bush in Paris

[CheshireCat]

We have a free weekly newspaper called the Free Times in Columbia, SC that leans progressive .

Author William Price Fox writes for the "Free Times" and this week his column is a gem. It is called "Bush in Paris".

Bush in Paris


"Just back from a five-week golf assignment in Paris with side trips to Scotland and Avignon. It was a tough assignment but somebody had to do it. Anyhow, wearing my George Bush badge with a big red "NO" running through it I hit the bars, the taverns, the pubs. Now you talk about some attention! The good burgers and tosspots in Scotland lined up to buy me all the single-malt scotch I could handle and all I could carry home to the family. One woman gave me a 2-pound tinned shortcake. First of all, the big surprise, on both sides of the English Channel, was that no one — not one solitary person — had anything bad to say about the good old U.S. of A. The second thing: No one had anything good to say about our man from Crawford, Texas — President Bush. He is universally loathed.

One rolled-umbrella, dark-suited and Homburged chap delivered a line only a Brit could deliver: "I say, your Mr. Bush seems to be extraordinarily simple-minded. I would think that alone would be marvelous grounds for impeachment." I agreed and he and his friends and I began ticking off a laundry list of Bush's idiocies and the appallingly low level of his Cabinet. I told them he had stacked the deck with the right-wing crazies under Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, and how they all believe this is Armageddon crunch time and we're the Crusaders out to convert the Middle East first and then the world.

One Guinness drinker stepped into the box: "Imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction poised to strike now — this was Bush's call and he called for a war he'd already decided on. So what you have here is a fool, if he couldn't read what the intelligence was telling him. Or a liar because he wanted this war. I'm saying he's a blatant liar."

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http://www.free-times.com/Traveling%20Light/fox.html

[tom_paine]

1. I love the Free World!

They provide a beacon of hope to those of us trapped behind the Televised Curtain of Imperial Amerika.

One day, I even hope to see the Empire rejoin the Free World, though history says that is probably too much to hope for.

[donhakman]

2. I say

Jolly good fun