Liberals Talk Funny

Bush, The Spoiled Man-Child by Mark Morford, SF Chronicle:

This is the hilarious thing. This is the appalling thing. How can this man remain so blindly, staggeringly resolute? How can he be so appallingly ignorant of fact, of truth, of evidence, of deep thought? In short, what the hell is wrong with George W. Bush?

Apparently this Morford thinks that President Bush is ignorant. The Democrats said that a lot during the election campaign. John Kerry was the candidate portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences. Now we find that Kerry averaged 76 for his four years at Yale, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy (just recently released). He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses. His top scores were 79 in political science and 77 in French, a language he already spoke. Bush also went to Yale and he received one D in his four years, a 69 in astronomy. Bush has said he was a C student. But Kerry was a genius! Now back to Morford.

Bush is, to be sure and in a word, unyielding. Determined! Immovable! Also, deeply confused! Myopic as hell! Frighteningly narrow minded! Childish in a way that would make any good parent seriously question whether it might be time to get their child some Ritalin and an emetic.

I guess that a leader with principles that he actually believes and acts upon is “unyielding” and in need of an emetic. Nothing like Kerry or Clinton, moral relativists who never met a dissemblance they did not like. I mean it all depends on the meaning of “is.”

But Morford doesn’t feel sufficiently satisfied by insulting his President; he also has a need to insult the 52+ % of Americans who chose him to be their President.

Bush is able to speak only at one level, to one level. The level of a child. The level of a simpleton. Bush is, of course, speaking to children. He is speaking to babies. It is a decidedly shallow and hollow and oddly deflated type of language that offers not a single nutritious or substantive thought to the political or cultural dialogue.

Bush supporters: children, babies even! But Morford reaches his intellectual pinnacle when addressing the subject of foreign policy.

It's all merely a crayon drawing, an intellectual wading pool, a big messy cartoon world populated by manly white good guys and fanged dark evil guys and we are good and they are evil and that's all there is to it so please stop asking weird tricky polysyllabic questions. After all, we are, by and large, a nation that refuses to grow up, refuses to take responsibility for our gluttony and its global effects. The U.S. still behaves, when all is said and done, like one of those scared wild monkeys, clinging desperately to a shiny object, unable to let go of this old, silly, faux-cowboy mentality of boom boom kill kill God is your daddy now sit down and shut up.

See what I mean by “talking funny.” But Liberals think this sort of blather is the cat’s meow of postmodern multicultural internationalism. See, I can do it too.