Not Going Gently Into the Good Night...

No, not at all. The Rude Pundit has some thoughts about Vietnam, Iraq, history, the failure of the neo-cons to understand it, and more. Near the end, this paragraph, bracketed off, caught my eye:

And let's be clear here, Fox "News" fuckfaces who want to propagate the myth that John Kerry only served for 4 months in 'Nam: if Kerry was in the shit, facing down fire for one fucking day, it was one day longer than your man.

Exactly. For Bush to play along with this (while pretending to stay above the fray) is the absolute height of arrogance--the moral equivalent of an inside trader shaking his head over corporate fraud and malfeaseance. We've got a president who thinks wars are for other people (or THEIR kids), a vice-president who IS a coward, a group of people in the Defense and State Departments who can't stop squabbling long enough to figure out just what the fuck the plan is in Iraq, and an economy which is only growing thanks to an infusion of almost $400 billion dollars worth of borrowed money (which doesn't even count the "supplementals" funding the war).

But why would anyone expect anything different from Bush? Does the man have ANYTHING to point to as an "accomplishment," besides executing 152 Texas prison inmates? By any measure, this election shouldn't even be a race--when history finally passes judgement, Bush will rank alongside Warren Harding as one of the least qualified individuals to ever hold the office.

If anyone wondered what a Dan Quayle administration would look like...well, I can't imagine it would be any worse than 43...