It seems to me that George W missed his true calling. I think he has long harbored a secret desire to be a thespian, for he’s a man who clearly loves to dress up in costumes.
There’s his famous Top Gun outfit, for example, which he strapped on back in 2003, strutting around vampishly to
declare “mission accomplished” in Iraq. Also, every few weeks, George likes to reprise his slapstick role as the
Cowboy President, appearing on his Crawford ranchette all duded out in boots, jeans, and that cowboy hat to
perform his patented “clearing brush” routine.
But Bush’s most-outstanding performance as a character actor has
to be when he plays Ranger George, nature lover and defender of
America’s treasured national parks. You can catch this shtick at least
once every campaign year, plus special dramatizations annually when
Earth Day rolls around. Using one of America’s spectacular park sites
as a backdrop, George dons hiker duds and plays to the cameras,
espousing more hearttugging fealty to our natural wonders
than any character since Smokey the Bear.
Bush debuted this act in his first
presidential run. On September 13,
2000, he struck a Teddy Roosevelt
pose standing on the banks of a
roaring river within sight of majestic
Mount Rainier in Washington State.
He lambasted the Clinton-Gore
administration for allowing a $4.9 billion
maintenance backlog to build
up in our national park system. [ read more ]
Here they come--America's Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons and chanting "Drill! Drill! Drill!" Right behind them are the famous Marching Lobbyists of Big Oil, and--look!--prancing alongside are House minority leader John Boehner and the Merry Pranksters of the Republican caucus, doing a precision routine of call and response
