Bushite

Excerpt from BBC news reporting George Bush's recent comments about the response to the New Orleans situation:

"My attitude is that we need to learn everything that we possibly can. There'll be time to take a step back and to take a sober look at what went right and what didn't go right.

There's a lot of information floating around that will be analysed in an objective way."

Thanks Bush-o.

I read these couple of paragraphs a few times before putting my finger on why they made me laugh/cringe.

Paragraph one: I can picture Bush, on first hearing the news of New Orleans, cracking open his first bottle of bubbly, taking a long, educated look at the situation, and just making shit loads of decisions.

Of course, now that he has been dubbed a racist by Kanye West and most of black America, as well as a dickhead by the rest of the world, he thought it best to refrain from popping open bottle number four and instead take a step back and have a sober look at "what went right and what didn’t go right".

Or, what made him look vaguely competent and what made him look like the crooked chancer that he is.

He is at least willing to emphasise his task of learning everything. Phew.

Paragraph two: note the choice of appropriate language - “there’s a lot of information FLOATING AROUND that will be analysed in an objective way.”

Bless him. It must be hard being the president, especially when you permanently feel like you are in deep water! (Sorry. Sorry! I slowly groan myself at the thought of allowing that appalling reference/joke to remain on this blog and yet my arms forbid me to remove the offending phrase from that sentence and prefer, instead, to continue along this fruitless exercise in self-indulgent, meandering prose. Sigh.)