Columnist – John Sammon
How do you deal with someone who’s malicious, dishonest, mentally deranged, or all three?

George Bush finally held his final press conference, and for perhaps the thirteenth time in recent weeks, he went on the air to once again explain to the American people that he really was a great president after all. This is unprecedented.

A president doing something unprecedented?

No president in the history of the country has launched an active political campaign like he was running for office, at the end of his presidency (the last two months), in which he appeared again and again and again to deny all the mistakes and stupidity he previously committed, and the flat out lies he told.

All of them (lies, mistakes) are now proven facts.

No president has ever done this before. Try to sell himself at the end in an effort to convince us of something.

Despite the fact that Bush is leaving with the economy in the worst shape since the Great Depression, and one from which America might collapse, Bush is really a great president. He’ll tell ya.’

Despite the fact Bush launched two wars, one under false pretenses, that have now lasted longer than World War Two, with no decisive victory. Despite this, Bush is really a great president. He’ll tell ya’ so.

Despite the fact that Bush undermined the Consitititution with illegal wiretap spying on American citizens under the justification that it’s a dangerous world, under the noses of Americans, many of whom were too ignorant or lazy to care, Bush is a great president. He’ll tell you.

Despite the fact Bush locked up suspected terrorists in a gulag camp in Cuba, a kind of American Bastille, and threw away the key without trial (even Nazi Herman Goering had a lawyer), in violation of everything America is supposed to stand for (legality), and which made America the disgrace of the world. Despite this, Bush will tell you he’s a great president.

And a host of supposed lesser gaffs, like calmly eating a sandwich in the White House oblivious to everything while fellow Americans, most of them black, starved and rotted in New Orleans’ Super Dome after Hurricane Katrina. No buses to pick them up. No food delivered. No emergency. No care. No concern.

Kind of like when Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake.” (Katrina is what finally did in the Bush Administration in the eyes of (most) of the American people because the scenes of suffering couldn’t be filtered or censored like those in Iraq.

But don’t worry. Bush has an explanation (blaming others) for Katrina too.

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Bush is leaving. He won’t have command of the airwaves any more to do spin or rewrites on recent history. But what of the twenty five percent of the American people who still support Bush? How do you deal with someone who, if I said the sun came up yesterday, he’d say, “no it didn’t.”

How do you deal with blindness, willful denial? You can’t. There’s no dealing with it.

I have a question for all the brainwashed rednecks. Bush is a Republican. You are a Republican. If you admit Bush was a lousy president, then you’re admitting that you were wrong….because you voted for him. You can’t admit you’re wrong, right?

Why then, can I admit that I was wrong? I used to be a Republican. I once voted for Richard Nixon. No joke. That was wrong. I was wrong. It’s no disgrace to be wrong, to be human. I thought Nixon was a decent man. I don’t know why I thought this. He was a thief, a cheat, and a liar (Nixon denied all this).

If I can admit I was wrong about Nixon, why can’t you admit you were wrong about Bush?

What kind of Democracy (or Republic) do we have if you can’t admit the truth? If the truth is whatever you say it is? Both political parties have occasionally provided bad presidents. Why can’t you concede this?

If you can admit that not all presidents have been good, if you can agree to this, then it’s possible, Bush could be a bad president.

He is, or was rather.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

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