He's A Coward, Get it?

Jimmy Breslin:

Bush's style is to be nowhere if things that carry a bit of fear happen. During Vietnam, he kept all dental appointments.

For the World Trade Center attack, he first froze in a classroom in Florida. Then he flew off in his plane for long hours.

Three days later, he got to New York where a flunkie placed a retired firefighter, Bob Beckwith from Long Island, alongside him atop a truck. Then Bush called out a football dressing room speech over a bullhorn.

This week, he spoke in Coronado with the carrier Ronald Reagan parked in the background. This was his sixth visit to San Diego as president.

In May 2003 Bush landed on the carrier Abraham Lincoln in the waters off San Diego. He wore a green flight suit, with a helmet under his arm. Why shouldn't he look like this? He was an American warrior. He changed into a business suit and spoke in front of a banner proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished."

There have been nearly 1,800 bodies in boxes returned from Iraq since then.

See, most of us always knew that Bush was a coward. But that critical 51% of Americans decided he showed "leadership" and "resolve". Bush and Cheney explicitly said that if you voted for the Democrats, a terrorist attack was more likely. I've never been so depressed in my life as when I woke up in November to find that such an obvious act of fear-mongering and incipient fascism had worked it's magic on the American people.

This gets back to an earlier point I made - even now, at the lowest point in his presidency thus far, Bush can count on the support of about 40% of the electorate. Apparently, we could have video of Bush beating a prostitute to death while he sodomized a baby and that 40% would be telling us about how the prostitute deserved it and the baby was a terrorist.