Happy Thanksgiving
Call me a shrieking commie baby-eating America-hating purblind idiot if you must, but this photo makes me ill, on so many levels.
Norman Rockwell is spinning in his grave.
NOTE: This is absolutely NOT the post I was intending to make tonight. But I saw another version of this photo on, you guessed it, Dean Esmay’s site, along with some intense praise for the President’s bravery and the size of his “brass ones.” And it angried up the blood, as Grandpa Simpson would say. This stupid election-year photo-op stunt is going to be gobbled up like edible panties on a hooker. And despite myself it’s added a little queasy edge to what was a wonderful family celebration today.
Kind of looks like he’s offering them a Last Supper. The whole thing is just so pathetic.
What’s worse is the Democratic candidates shying away from critiquing the trip. F*&$ing wimps. All one of them had to say was “Instead of hiding in a tent at the airport, I would have liked to see Bush walk the streets and visit the Iraqi people, since he claims the country is safe and universally grateful.” What we got instead was “far be it from me to criticize our commander in blah blah blah” again.
Since the deficit is up to $400 billion nwo, can we charge candidates a huge licensing fee for use of photos taken on boondoggles like this? Like $50 million per use, pegged toward programs for the poor?
I’m so angry at this blatant stunt, I’m speechless.
The first thing that came to my mind upon seeing that picture: The episode of Will & Grace where Jack and Karen are in the hotel room with the big Christmas feast, wishing they could do something for all the poor people with nothing to eat, then saying, “We could take pictures of ourselves eating this and show ’em to them!”
I know — when I saw the enormous headline, “Bush Surprises Everyone” or some such, I thought he had actually DONE something — and according to the fawning news reports, it sounds like he thinks he actually did. Iif this is a military food service, wouldn’t the food be served cafeteria style? You hit it exactly when you said “Norman Rockwell” — so blatant it can hardly be called a subliminal message.
And now the issue seems to be, why do some people (liberals, Democrats & other freedom-haters) hate Bush? With books coming out on his “conversion,” and his statesmanlike speech in Britain (quoting British philosophers and theologians I can’t imagine he’s familiar with), I’m beginning to wonder myself. As Lily Tomlin says, as cynical as you get, you can’t keep up.
Glad your dinner was good, though.
Becky
Yeah….me too..
“gobbled up like edible panties on a hooker”! This weblog has done wonders for your writing skills. Keep up the good work.