Where the Hell is George W. Bush!?

I remember back in the days immediately following Katrina, when we watched aghast.  Our great city had drowned and Bush was AWOL as usual.  Conservatives ridiculed our disgust.  "What good is a pretty speech going to do?"  "Who cares?"

Of course, that's precisely the point.  For conservatives, nobody cares.  You're all alone in a world filled with powers beyond your control.  Money and power are your only consolation.  You win it or you don't and if you don't, then that's your own sorry luck.
Well, now the pain that was once reserved for the few left behind at the Superdome has trickled up to the powerbrokers on Wall Street, and again, George W. Bush is nowhere to be found.  Not only was this disaster a direct result of the Bush/McCain ideology of Free Market Fundamentalism, but ultimately, this is a crisis of confidence.  The truth is, we need a president who is capable of instilling confidence, and Bush is again, on this count, an abject failure.

Watching Barack Obama's two minute personal address to the nation, it became clear to me that I was looking at the face of a real leader, someone capable of rallying the nation to action in challenging times.  Like any deadbeat conservative, Bush is there for the good times, and gone when things get rough.

So, Heckuva job Greenspan.  Heckuva job McCain. Heckuva job Dubya!  Your disastrous supply-side anti-regulation idiocy cost America a Trillion dollars this week.  Barack Obama has what neither George Bush nor John McCain possess:  the ability re-establish confidence in the American people.

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