Political soap box part dubya

I have a new found fascination with an American president(no homo); let me rephrase that, I am fascinated with a president's failures. That president is one George Walker Bush, better known as Dubya. Having now read two (whole) books (without pictures :( ) about the presidency of Dubya, I've come to realize exactly why the story fascinates me so greatly. It's truly a story of karma; how in the end the chickens will always come home to roost, what goes around truly comes back around. Karma, when seen in it's purest of forms, gives me hope. (somewhat pathetically) I feel like my good deeds or good intentions will be repaid back to me, the opposite of course being true as well. And the story of Dubya's rise and fall from grace has all that interwoven within it, which makes it so damn compelling. In 2000, when Dubya and Al (I won an oscar dammit) Gore were in a dead heat for who was going to take Florida, and thus the presidential election, Herbert Walker Bush (the 41^st) called in every favor he had left. The Bush Dynasty was going to live on, at first with the oldest son Dubya, then in 2008 with Jeb. They even made Jeb, the Governor of Florida and (at that point) a potential presidential candidate in his own right, come to bat for them. Between the H.W. Bush appointed justices that populated the supreme court (2 of 9, while 7 total leaned right) and Jeb, the Bush's were able to rig an election in their favor and take the presidency by force. Thus beginning what would in hindsight be the most unsuccessful and highly regarded as the worst two time presidency in American History. So bad in fact, that when it was all said and done, the Republicans were left to roll out a woman for Vice President with no real/valid political experience and minimal sex appeal (if having an unstoppable desire to hate fuck her is in fact considered “sex appeal”) to lose handily to the first black president. The nation, which was two elections removed from considering which born into political royalty candidate would make the best president (Gore/Dubya) now shat on the republican party and all they had dreamed they had built, by electing a black man with relatively no experience to office. I'm not sure there is a bigger reminder as to how badly you really fucked up if your Dubya. There are stories of H.W. crying at the end of 2007, knowing that the Bush legacy had been irrevocably destroyed, because his true favorite son, Jeb, would never get to be president. Talk about burning the bridge down, Dubya damn near salted the earth as he went by. And now, you are probably beginning to wonder, how does all of this make any fucking sense? Where the fuck is the karma? Well chillren, lemme tell you how. You see, the Bush's thought that if Dubya won the presidency it would redeem H.W. For his humiliating lose to Clinton in '92, by defeating Bill's protege (Gore) in 2000. And though there's almost no chance they won this without rigging the election, thanks in part to
“Boy Genius” Karl Rove's playbook, a wins a win. And then in 2004, the luck of the draw/ sacrificial lamb of the democratic party (John Kerry) and again Rove's sadistic playbook (google widespread vote discrepancy in Ohio in '04) allowed for Dubya to continue on with his destructive ways. But you see, karma begins to shine through. Dubya should never been president to begin with. One aspect of our presidents is that they tend to be knowledgeable men; Dubya was not. And while he was smarter than he let on, that’s a back handed compliment especially when you're the president. He was under-qualified to state it mildly, and it should have been Jeb carrying on the Bush name. Jeb gave the process of running for president its due diligence, taking an almost identical path that his father took; rose from the leader of the Republican party in his adopted hometown (Florida), then to Governor. In 2004, he would have run for President, sans Dubya. But Dubya wanted the spotlight, and dammit he took it, leap frogging Jeb to take the Bush crown. One in which he would shatter, stomp, break and obliterate before it could ever so much as touch Jeb. When H.W. Came to bat for his oldest son Dubya in the 2000 campaign, he did so by attempting to thwart attacks that Bill Clinton had levied against his son, claiming Dubya was “only there cause he was a son of a president”. That was when karma decided, H.W. If ya want this so badly for your son, here you go...but I'll see you in eight years. And as H.W. Probably spent a year of his life loving it, and the next seven wishing he'd had thought better, Dubya was running amok. Karl Rove was attempting to catapult the Republican party to a future of running the country for years and years to come. And eight years later, Karma decided she'd (sounds cooler as a woman) had had enough. Eight years of mismanagement, neglect, abysmal approval ratings, personal agendas, and cronyism at its finest, she was ready to collect on some debts. Dubya was exiled back to Texas, nary to be heard from again. Herbert Walker is still crying, wishing it had been his level headed son Jeb, who took after him, and not Dubya, the one who took after Barbara. Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are relegated to defending their “legacies” (if overwhelming failure does in fact, lend itself to legacies) nightly on Fox News, and democrats not republicans, are fixin to rule the city (D.C) and the country for years to come. It's gotten so bad for the Republican party Newt Gingrich has decided he's gonna give it a crack at the ole' presidency in 2012; the same Newt Gingrich who once said of his wife, who he was pressing for a divorce while she lay in the hospital recovering from cancer that “She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." Oh how the mighty have fallen. Thanks Dubya, and while you may be shunned by your party, forced into a slow death in exile in Texas, I as a democrat would like to thank you; without you and your idiocy/incompetence none of this (Obama's America) would be possible. And you see, that's where it's karma. A family who believed it was self-entitled to serve as president for however many years it bear the offspring to do so, was humiliated by allowing it's black sheep to leap its prodigal son, fooling even his own family into thinking he was fit to lead the free world. And by that token Dubya himself said it (worst)“fool me once, shame on- shame on you. Fool me- you can't get fooled again.” The American people, who were too distraught after 9/11 and the ensuing attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq to do more than elect Dubya a second time (when 55 million americans were ridiculously wrong simultaneously) he only allowed the American people to see through his flaws, to see that he really was an overprivileged man-child with no business being in the position he was in. And while the Republican party should be sitting back and smoking stogies, talking about how Jeb's doing a fine job and will for another 6, we democrats are saying the same thing about Obama, laughing all the way. Karma remains a cruel bitch.