thessalian | Reboot Right Out The Window

Presidency: Reloaded? How do you relaunch a presidency? How do you gain back the loss of so much public faith? Libby's been indicted and Cheney's somehow involved. The situation in Iraq has got to the point where there's actual fragging by the troops (I didn't know that 'to frag' meant to kill off a superior officer; thanks,

kixie!) and Democrats are forcing closed-door, media-free talks to find out why we went in in the first place. There was Katrina -- seriously, there was no way he could have handled that any worse without literally pissing himself and hiding under the bed.

You can tell a lot about a president and how he copes when a disaster of that magnitude happens later. Compare and contrast, shall we? Upon hearing the news that people flew planes into the WTC and Pentagon building, Bush looks like a five-year-old child who's about to cry for his mother and then just keeps on doing what he's doing. Upon hearing that NOLA's getting ripped apart by a hurricane and there are people still stuck in the area, Bush continues along with his holiday. Say what you will about Blair, he showed what he was capable of on 7th September. He wasn't reading to kids or being on holiday; he was in a global bloody conference, and yet the minute he got the news, he stood up in front of that hard-assembled company and basically said, "Sorry, guys, but someone just tried to blow up my city and they need me; I'll be back as soon as I can" ... then went back to London and did his best to take care of things. He may be a lapdog for Dubya, but at least when the people at home need him, he at least tries to be there.

So any suggestions for Bush 2.1? (It'd be Bush 2.0, but 1.0 would have been Bush Sr.) Because frankly, I'm of the opinion that a half-masticated taco shell could do a better job of running the country.

Oh, and by the way?