Forrest Gump's Evil Twin

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April 20, 2006

 

Forrest Gump's Evil Twin

by

Stephen P. Pizzo

Raconteur at Large

 

How extraordinary.

Something is happening here that

has never happened in America's history. A consensus

is sweeping the nation. Not that the war in Iraq is

wrong, or that oil companies are screwing us blue, or

that the climate is going to hell, or that good-paying

jobs are being replaced by low-paying jobs, or that

our national health care system is a disgrace, or that

that the rich are getting a lot richer while the

middle class gets poorer.

 

While all that's true, and more and more folks are

getting it, that's not the consensus of which I speak.

Nope. This one is bigger, enormous, huge!

 

Here it is:

 

The President of the United States is a moron.

 

 

Yes, stupid, dumb as common road gravel. And not

figuratively, but literally. George W. Bush, President

of the world's last remaining super-power, is a moron.

Forrest Gump's evil twin.

 

I broached this possibility one year ago in a post

entitled, Bush: The Worst President Ever? I were a

bit early with that one. But what a difference a year

makes! Here's the cover story of this week's Rolling

Stone Magazine:

 

 

So the jury is in: Bush is a moron. If stupid is as

stupid does, he's stupid. A botched war on terror,

exploding debt, his “what me worry” response to

Katrina – and the ongoing mismanagement of the

recovery, North Korea has the bomb and Iran is on its

way to its own nuke. Think about that for a second

because it is definitive proof Bush is a moron. First

he identifies three nations as his “Axis of Evil” in

the world: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Then he as a

chance to whack one of the three and he picks the ONLY

ONE that had no WMD. The only way he could look worse

is if it were only two countries – a coin flip – and

he still got it wrong.

 

Yes Virginia, the current occupant of the Oval Office

is no longer a crook or an adulterer. He's a moron.

 

As if that were not a bad enough, we still face two

and half years with this man at the controls. NFR

reader, Philip Bourgeois, suggested an intervention be

launched by former presidents, Clinton, Bush Sr. and

Jimmy Carter. Not a bad idea, Phil.

 

 

Poppa Bush must be beside himself watching his kid

screw up decades of diplomacy in just five short

years. He could take sonny into that Oval Office

alcove where Monica used to dispense her favors and

administer a few long overdue dope slaps.

 

Bill Clinton could sit the moron down and give him a

short course in how balance a checkbook, teach him the

difference between capital investment and

undisciplined spending and the virtues of saving for a

rainy day.

 

Jimmy Carter could teach Junior the actual meaning of

the word “compassionate,” and how to walk that walk.

Carter could reveal to him that giving the already

comfortably rich even more money, is not compassion.

Giving more money to the growing number of those who

work 60-hours a week, or more, and still can't get by,

is " compassion.” And he could figure out how to cover

the nearly 50 million Americans who cannot afford

health insurance.

 

 

But none of that is likely to happen. One of the

trademarks of a moron is contempt for facts that

challenge the simple but comfortable fictions that

rule their daily routines. You can drag a moron to a

library, but you can't force him to learn.

 

In fact morons get downright testy when someone

challenges what they think they know. We saw this

trait earlier this week when Bush was asked if he

thought Don Rumsfeld should resign. The moron lashed

out at the questioner, dashed into his imaginary phone

booth and emerged as The Decider. " I'm the Decider, he

pronounced, with Mussolini-like swagger. You see,

scratch a moron and beneath that smirking,

ignorance-is-bliss exterior you discover a fundamental

truth: beauty may be only skin deep, but moron goes

right to the bone.

 

I'm staying close to home until this guy is gone.

Keeping my head down, my nose clean, and watching what

I say in emails for friends. And I have a piece of

advice for the Iranians too -- this guy really is

crazy enough to " decide " that bombing the shit out you

is a good idea. Yes, Bush is exactly as stupid as he

looks, sounds and acts.

 

Doubt that at your peril. Fifty-one percent of

American voters doubted it. And now we're screwed.

 

 

 

Another definition of Moron

" Bush has been studiously anti-science,

a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished

his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. "

(Columnist Richard Cohen)