http://jameswolcott.com/Only a few weeks ago, things looked grim. Bleak. Even posters on the liberal
blogsites seemed to be sitting on the suicide ledge peering past the slough
of despond into the abyss below. That infamous Gallup Poll which had the
race Bush 104, Kerry -6 had many of us rattled. A statistically impossible
110 point deficit seemed a mite difficult to overcome.
But that was before John Kerry grape-stomped Bush into a sullen mash.
In birding, those fanatical about building up the life lists of species are
known as "twitchers." But there was no bigger twitcher last night than the
bird-hating Bush, who once ignorantly shot a killdeer during a photo op
thinking it was a dove, according to Karen Hughes' merde-eating memoir.
Bush's face suffered a silent outbreak of Tourette's Syndrome; he grimaced,
smirked, sniffed, rolled his eyes, and did some weird thing with his mouth
that as yet has no diagnostic name. He was President Twitchy, giving a
performance that critics hailed as "peevish" and "petulant."
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Since then Bush has been wheeled out into forums where no one can dare
question or contradict his majesty, where he can lean forward and repeat ad
nauseam his patented soundbites. Last night I believe we saw the ugly
comeback of the private face of Bush--the irritable expressions he flashes
subordinates when he's presented with information he doesn't like or feels
someone's taken up too much of his time or is pressed to explain himself to
people he shouldn't have to explain himself to because he's the president and
fuck you. The notion that Bush is "likeable" has always been laughable. It
takes a Washington pundit to be that dumb. He's an angry, spoiled, resentful
little big man--I use "little big man" in the Reichian sense of a small
personality who puffs himself up to look big through bluster and swagger but
remains a scheming coward inside--and next to a genuinely big man like
Kerry, shrunk before the camera's eyes.
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Frankly, I'm amazed by this reversal of fortune. Bush let Kerry get to him. I
truly thought Bush would stick to the Reagan playbook and genially shrug off
Kerry's criticisms with a grin and a quip, but he's a greater mass of
insecurities and arrogant entitlements than even I imagined. I pity the fools
who have to prep Bush for the next debate. Because they're sure going to
have one pissy pupil on their hands.
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