Tony's Snow Job

Tony Snow’s new campaign to turn the wholly discredited Cowboy President into a HyperReader is beyond ridiculous.

We’re reminded of an early Bushism when he was asked whose his favorite philosopher was and he replied, “Jesus”. Perhaps Jesus is making the tacky Texan believe that he really is Abraham Lincoln material, as he implies by his claims to having read two books on our Civil War President this year already.

Compare his ranting Second Inaugural, solely devised to get him slickly out of his own homemade Iraq quagmire with Lincoln’s Second Inaugural. It’s the difference between TV Slinglish and immemorially moving prose. And to prove he’s not yet an intellectual, he is reported to love books about baseball. Why not, his Texas Rangers sinecure not only made him a millionaire after he had flopped badly four times in a row as an oilogarch.

Bush’s pathetic campaign to repeat slogans about fighting terrorism abroad so we won’t have to do it at home is simply pathetic. This man with comic book awareness of our historical past insults us all by twisting fascism to a simpleminded Procrustrean bed to suggest he’s on top of things. The country is safer when he’s cutting brush in Crawford than when he’s pretending to be President. That a great country has been conned into making him appear to be President twice will go down in history as our First Big Gaffe. We will all pay dearly for our carelessness.