Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Can you answer this?
A question - truly I don't know the answer and I don't understand: what is it about George Bush that inspires rage? To me he seems normal and typically American, so much so that I don't understand what provokes such anger and passionate rage. (Is there 'cool unimpassioned rage'? Ah, well, I guess that's a topic for another day.). If it's his quintessential American-ness, then are they also enraged when they meet common ordinary Wisconsin or Kansas or Oregon residents? I doubt it. If it's his speech, is it because each of them speaks so perfectly and succinctly, always conveying the right straight-on meaning as well as nuance, that it's beyond their ability to conceive that he speaks less perfectly? I doubt it. If it's because he claims fealty to moral rectitude, do they feel they know what's right and wrong (differently from him) and/or believe there is no such thing (unlike him)? Again, I doubt it. So what is the problem??
Labels: gwb, reflections
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