Mark Morford (SF Chronicle): 11 Hard Questions For Bush

[Dudley_DUright]

Thank you for your time, Mr. President.

Just a few questions, purely for clarification, so the American people might understand you better. I know you're busy, packing for another vacation or something. This won't take but a few minutes. Here, have a soda. Let's begin:

1) Mr. President, if a train leaves San Francisco at 10 am carrying 1,000 happily gay happily married couples and travels at 85 mph for three hours, while at the very same moment a train departs Crawford, Texas, loaded with 2,000 vaguely miserable Christian fundamentalists and nail-wearing fanatics of "The Passion of the Christ" and travels in exactly the opposite direction at 65 mph for the same amount of time, at what point will almost every single fundamentalist secretly wish s/he could be the towel boy for the hot-tub parties on the other train?

2) Dubya, as you're apparently comfortable with the fact that more than 700 young U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq (over 125 this month alone!) and thousands more have been wounded and hundreds more will doubtlessly die in the coming months, not to mention the countless thousands of innocent Iraqi/Afghan civilians who've been killed, all as a result of your aggro-American policy to rid the world of all those who would stand in the way of your oily corporate stratagems, does this mean you are able to laugh in the face of death and mock the vagaries of time and fate?

Are you able, in other words, to transcend the physical body and the ego and attain a superhuman spiritual mastery of the earthly form? Are you a god? Or just a petty and small-minded warmonger controlled by thin-lipped master puppeteers? Did I just answer my own question?

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[Dudley_DUright]

1. I just love question 10 (which is not really a question, but great anyway)

Astronomers have recently discovered that not only is the universe expanding at a mind-boggling rate, but this expansion is actually accelerating, propelled by an astounding and mysterious force called dark energy that pushes the boundaries of our universe outward faster and faster and baffles the world's greatest minds and throws into question our most basic understanding of gravity and space/time and the galaxy and our place in it.

I don't really have a question here. Just wanted to point out your ultimate, staggering smallness, relatively speaking.

[XIX]

3. oh how I adore Mark Morford...

we joke about how he should run as Vice President with Michael Moore (or Marilyn Manson, in our cups, lol) because the buttons would be gorgeous (MM/MM 2004) and the improvement would be immediate. Though honestly I think pocket lint could be Resident better than a certain someone, but I digress.

He's also not letting up on The Passion. Props to Mr. Morford : )

XIX

[XIX]

4. oh how I adore Mark Morford...

we joke about how he should run as Vice President with Michael Moore (or Marilyn Manson, in our cups, lol) because the buttons would be gorgeous (MM/MM 2004) and the improvement would be immediate. Though honestly I think pocket lint could be Resident better than a certain someone, but I digress.

He's also not letting up on The Passion. Props to Mr. Morford : )

XIX

[Raster]

5. Welcome to DU XIX!

Come on in, the water's fine...

[newyawker99]

6. Hi XIX!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Webster Green]

2. Oooooh!

Mark cuts to the chase....again!