Damn I love this country. In the recent "Most Admired Man" competition, guess who comes out on top?
George W. Bush, of course!
Georgie boy beats Bill Clinton by a stastistically insignificant margin (but Bush still "wins" -- sound familiar?), and both beat out Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore.
Aren't Americans learning great lots of good?
They sure is!
So let's see, what does this "say to the children"?
It tells our children that:
- It's okay to be a war criminal.
- It's okay to lie and cheat your way to power, as long as you win.
- You can get away with murder. Seriously. Or at least manslaughter on a grand scale -- after all, you wouldn't want to be your privileged little hands dirty if you are born into America's most powerful political family. There are plenty of others who will do the killing for you.
- Torture is fine, as long as it's done against people who your buddies successfully label as bad guys (even if they were actually just innocent people turned in by bounty hunters).
- The Constitution of the United States can be completely meaningless if you want it to be. And when you ignore it and subvert it, your friends will make sure you're not punished. Ever.
- Any little boy who is born into a family of industrialist, war-profiteering families whose father was head of the CIA, a Vice President, and President, and whose grandfather was a Senator and tried to overthrow FDR and financed Adolf Hitler CAN grow up to be President! Even if you're a drugged up, draft-dodging, alcoholic loser.
Kids everywhere will really appreciate that.
Is this country great, or what?