my last post about bush brought something back to my attention.
there are people who speculate that bush wasn't always so stupid. right around the 2004 election, some started to speculate that bush is actually getting dumber because he is developing pre-senile dementia (basically alzheimer's) as a consequence of his history of alcohol abuse.
check out the video:
while it may be a case of confirmation bias based on little data, i invite anyone to try to find a video of bush as president speaking that eloquently. the 2004 debates were embarrassing, and he demonstrated no such speaking ability at any moment as far as i can tell.
some of the left-wing cranks think it could be lyme disease instead, though he was supposedly properly treated.
either way, it's really pathetic that we're looking for scientific causes for our president's retardation.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
bush developing senility?
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Interesting post. It's important to remember how poor a debater he was in 2000 as well, though. Youtube some of those videos and he's not noticeably worse than he is now. Indeed, a good many of his most famous "Bushisms" like "Is our children learning?" came prior to 2002.
bushisms still occur...while i don't have hard numbers numbers to back this, my suspicion is that the perceived decline in number of bushisms is partially a product of the 'bushism' being less funny when this guy's incompetence went from a mild amusement to a threat to our country. he still pulls a lot of dumb shit, as evidenced by this constantly updated list here and these videos here and here.
those videos are just stupid dances, but this lack of professionalism is unbecoming for people in our own respective real-life jobs, let alone heads of state during public appearances. in my opinion, they are a step above his earlier fuckups, where he just seemed clever but uninformed and unacademic. by contrast, things like the links above make me think he may have some issues taking care of himself, let alone running the country.
remember, that video was back in '94...far before he ever ran for the presidency.
having just watched the last king of scotland again,
i see an interesting parallel in two people who seem humorous buffoons until you remind yourself that they are the most powerful people in their government.
gormless + drunk with power = scary shit
of course, we've not progressed to the point of bush being labelled a cannibal (yet)
Ok, i am gonna take the opportunity to rant here about that excuse for a movie - Last King of Scotland, with pretty boy James Mcavoy (you see how that rhymed, take that). It showed promise at the start but very quickly and pathetically devolved into a predictable, lazy thriller.
One scene in particular remains in my head - the one where Mc-a-boy leaves Amin's estate where the dictator watches Deep Throat in the shadows of the twilight and of his dark evil. Just then, very inappropriately, a leering gash of a sleazy glam metal solo joins the sub par mid tempo rock soundtrack and compounds your misery at the crap oddessey on screen. It kinda makes you wish you were watching Deep throat with dada Amin instead.
The only good thing about the movie was seeing a revived and sexy looking Gillian Anderson trapped in the constriants of her wifey role. That this confronter of aliens and secret govt experimental excess would deign to allow Mc-a-toy to even kiss her skirt ends is a disgusting sacrilege and an insult to primal womanhood.
They tried to please me with gore- a lot of, including with a Kerry Washington doll with rearranged body parts. The director hoped I would overlook the lack of direction in his script by making me throw up but it just made me madder and madder.
However much I might have hated 'Mc-a-soy milk face' and his smirking white prince conquering the native women's underbrush air, the scene of his torture did not appease me.
What was that yelling? Oh shit, it's that nut job from tv yelling at the appeaser's who directed this film and at me for watching it. Now, now Kevin James, radio talk show asshole guy from Hardball, there was no appeasement here, you can stop your yelling at Forest Whittaker now, he was not appeasing me, though he tried to by poking Mc-helen o troy's nipples. Yes I like nipple pokies and scour the internet for them, I just dont care for the gored nipplature of our scottish brat.
Thats it, I am done here. You guys can go back to discussing whatever important issue you were discussing before I interrupted. I want to thank Random Retard for providing me with this opportunity to vent about a movie that was so crappy I have been harboring thoughts of vengeance against every member of it's production team for three long months. If Dada was around, I d enlist his help to hunt down these taste perverts and give them a wicked taste. Too bad, all the great ones have to leave us when we need them the most.
We disagree yet again, Minotauro. I think The Last King of Scotland was a fine film, featuring outstanding performances from each of the leads. Forrester Whitaker's portrayal of Amin is both terrifying and relatable, and the film's narrative is straightforward yet elegantly told. Definitely one of the better biopics of the last decade.
last king wasn't a biopic. not even close. its based on a thriller novel that was written based on some bare bones fact.
And if you expect me to take seriously a movie that has a full on torture session in an airport duty free liquor store during the entebbe hijacking, which btw ended on a much more dramatic note than shown in the film, you must take me for a far more delusional person than I actually am.
That said Forest Whittaker was pretty darn good, but not as good as everyone claimed he was. Maybe if he played Amin in a straight bio pic it would have done his talents more justice. What was far more interesting than the movie was the lone interviewee in the bonus section of the film who said that Amin was like a hero to him because he met him when he was a child and was overwhelmed by his personality.
The fact that this mass murdering demagogue exerts such an ifluence 30 years after being deposed is scary. It's proof also that the Hitler phenomenon is not an isolated case in history.
Despite its (in)accuracy, the part i like about it (and what i was trying to relate to fearless leader of ours) is just how much you can laugh at the slip-ups and big friendly smiles on-screen, and then realise you're bonding with a mass-murderer.
throughout the entire film you have a very hard time connecting the man with crimes against humanity -- and that's probably how it really felt there in real life to those around him.
that's why i like it-- accurate or not
i meant you have a hard time connecting them until the end of course when people are kidnapped and chopped up into pieces, etc
just like the main character does
I agree fully with your point MR Random but my beef is purely on a cinematic level with the guy who made the movie. If he is reading this blog(which he should as should every body else, by decree or force!) then I challenge him to defend his movie.
The naivete of the protagonist in the film is pretty absurd however given the extent of violence that Amin practised. It resembles that of the 30 percent of Americans who still approve of Bush's job. Their identification with him as and his likable everyman persona is the only reason that I can think of for their ability to forgive his mismanagement.
but is it REALLY so absurd? how do people like amin make friends and do it so well? how do they get to where they are? if I was a psychotic dictator, I'd certainly have all my dirty work done behind closed doors if I can. makes me feel a lot better. even hitler had covered up stuff well for quite some time.
we really don't know what goes on around us unless we LOOK for it-- and i have a feeling that the ugandan press wouldn't be flouting pictures of rivers clogged with bodies. He may be naive, but I can see how it's possible to be naive like that-- to be able to hide in Amin's Kampala and never see Amin's Uganda. I imagine if I lived in Pyongyang for a year without any other knowledge of N.Korea, I'd never know the difference and might even consider it a nice country.
reminds me of an ss guard coming home to tell the wife about the dull day at work: just received a few shipments, cleared some old stock.
"what does hubby do at work? nothing very special"
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