Bush's disturbing sleeping disorder

[WilliamPitt]

Bush's disturbing sleeping disorder
By Hunter S. Thompson
Page 2 columnist

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/040218

The national news was crowded with big stories this week, and most of them turned out to be somehow joined at the hip with major league Sports -- especially Football and its sinister connections with tainted money and naked women. It was shocking.

"This is horrible news," I said to Anita, as Janet Jackson's tortured right nipple was rubbed in our face for the 55th time in three days. "Nobody remembers the final score in Houston, but we ALL witnessed the shameless quasi-naked sight of that breast and S&M-style nipple shield."

It was like having football and porno all at once, with no holds barred ... Or that's what they said on TV, anyway. CBS News Wizard Ed Bradley called it a magic moment for show business.


But not in the White House. George Bush went out of his way to announce formally that he went to sleep long before the end of the first half.

What kind of all-American boy would say a stupid thing like that while he's running for re-election? Only a fool would deliberately insult the whole Football Nation, at a nervous time when polls show his Job Approval Rating plunging below 50 percent for the first time since he took office in January of 2001. That is like stabbing yourself in the back while you're preparing to fight for your life on a street corner. It is dumb, and so is the dingbat who told Bush to say it.

(snip)

Was he drunk? Does he fear the sight of an uncovered nipple? Was he lying? Does he believe in his heart that there are more evangelical Christians in this country than football fans and sex-crazed yoyos with unstable minds? Is he really as dumb as he looks and acts?

These are all unsatisfactory questions at a time like this. Is it possible that he has already abandoned all hope of getting re-elected? Or does he plan to cancel the Election altogether by declaring a national military emergency with terrorists closing in from all sides, leaving him with no choice but to launch a huge bomb immediately?

All these things are possible, unfortunately, in a White House that is drowning in it's own failures. Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer.

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[Virginian]

1. Add to that

that he made a big production of lapping the race track in his motorcade to arrive at the announcer's stand in time to say "Gentlemen start your engines" and to make a purely political visit at taxpayer's expense. Then he left the NASCAR race before it was over. What kind of race fan is that? Not likely a race fan at all, just an opportunistic politician.
I hope the real fans can see through him.

[Merrick]

2. so what do you think he dreamed about?

Pretty balls that bounce up and down?
Shitting his pants in a cabinet meeting and hoping nobody will notice?
Knowing he has to get to his national reserve facility to take a drug test but he just... can't...seem...to get moving?
Vicious, cruel gay boys stealing his lunch money in high school?

[The Magistrate]

3. A Beautiful Piece, Sir!

"Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer."

That will be committed to memory for use as a tag line....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[amazona]

4. he was drunk and passed out

I guess Hunter is the last to know but Chimpy has never made any secret of his early bed time.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. His real sleep disorder is

that he can sleep at all at night, knowing he's murdered 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and caused the deaths of over 500 U.S. soldiers because of his lies.

[WilliamPitt]

6. I'll bet he sleeps just fine.

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

- Barbara Bush, said on 'Good Morning America' the day before the Iraq war started, New York Times, 01-13-03

"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

- George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02

From mother to son.

[Virginian]

8. How arrogant can they get?

It sounds like they both live by a truncated quotation, "A mind is a terrible thing."

[izzie]

7. It is as silly as Clinton's statement on pot.

Once it would be interesting if they just did as real people do like Truman. Get mad and write a bad letter and say you did it.