In seven days time, our American friends go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. I'm sure they'll all be pondering the qualities of the candidiates and of course it doesn't do for people like me to interfere - but hell, since when did I ever let good manners stop me from sticking my oar in?
One of my sons has a copy of Fahrenheit 9/11. I Think I'll watch it. He says the accusations are dynamite, but strangely, not too many Americans seem to believe them. One fundamental difference between people on this side of the Atlantic and those who'll be choosing their President next week, is that here in England we are deeply sceptical of politicians and utterly unforgiving of signs of weakness in their intellect. Here, Bush could never have risen above local politics - he is too obviously an unintelligent buffoon, and the startling interview he gave before the last election in which he was unable to name the president of Pakistan, would have sunk him as a candidate. Under pressure from the questioner, he said Musharraf's first name was 'General'. It was one of those moments when you just knew the guy was far from up to the job. I'd love to see him doing Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons - a weekly inquisition by his peers, and no one to save him from his idiocy. He'd crap his pants and they'd all throw paper at him.
The Commons is a bear pit, but the rough and tumble ensures that idiots don't survive. Bush is protected from all that, and in the recent debate with Kerry, had a wire up the back of his jacket so someone could work his mouth. Just check out the photograph above this post and try to convince yourself I'm wrong. If you can, just don't go out in the street without a care worker. Someone will take your money and your pants and convince you its the right thing.
4 comments:
Em, Fred,
When are you going to blog about our referendum?
If it feels like there is an elephant in the room, there probably is an elephant in the lounge.
Q
Well Q, I think that's a good suggestion, and I might have a go at it, but the elephant in my room at the moment, is that the President of the United States might just beat one of my chickens in a head to head on current affairs outside his own concerns, one chicken maybe - both, he'd lose hands down.
Now I know that people seldom recognize the existence of any country but America on our side of the Atlantic, but us Canadians are very different from our southern "friends". Maybe it's the benevolent influence that you have on us as our mother country UK, or maybe it's the cold, but I'd like to think we are a skeptical and politically conscious country (despite the fact that our house of commons is all mucked up). A poll several weeks ago showed that if we were voting for an American president, there'd be more chance of all the penguins flying out of orbit than having Bush for another four years. It's really too bad we can't highjack their election process for them, but hey, if they want a baffoon they've got one, someone should just be sure to keep him locked up at the zoo.
Hi BC,
It must really piss you off that the US gets all the attention. I know you deserve your share, but they do sit there like a cuckoo in the North American nest and make a lot of noise. It's like the way they rewrite history in Hollywood so they won every battle in the Second World War (U571). Some drongo on a message board wrote the other day that we Brits had our butts saved by them after we surrendered in the Battle of Britain... Don't think he'd heard of anyone but his own countrymen being involved on June 6th 1944, he'd have been as surprised to hear the Canadians were there as he was to learn that we landed down the coast from them.
Well, they certainly have a buffoon, but I'm at least as concerned at the outright dishonesty involved in Washington these last few years as I am about the fact that the President can't really put two toughts together.
You're right by the way, we do have a lot in common with you people.
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