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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Threat assessments, geo-political ramifications, and that long-haired guy who got all the ass back in college.
Good to see that President Frat House is using his best judgement when it comes to understanding the millions who are demonstrating against Operation Inigo Montoya. According to Royal Court Fellator, Howard Fineman, the Cheerleader King is having college flashbacks:
Images of global demonstrations against war with Iraq linger in the minds of heads of state and talking heads: millions of citizens marching in the name of peace in streets from London and Glasgow to Rome and Tokyo. But I can tell you that the marchers impressed President George W. Bush, too. They convinced him — if he needed more convincing — that he is surely on the right course in confronting Saddam Hussein.
Shaped by the Yale of the ’60s and by his own father’s career, the president views the demonstrators as weak-willed moral relativists, afraid to take on — as only faith-filled and freedom-loving leaders can — forces of evil on earth.
The president’s stark, black-and-white outlook stems from many sources, among them his Bible-centered faith, his success at quitting drinking “cold turkey,” his upbringing on the playgrounds of West Texas and the fierce sense of mission he found on the morning of 9/11/01.
But his view of the wider world was shaped as much by Yale as by anything else. The New Haven of the mid-’60s was divided into two cultural worlds, and Bush knew only one of them. He was a fraternity man — a fraternity leader, in fact — who had little sympathy or contact with the “other side” of the campus, the portion then helping to nurture a radical “Black Power” crusade and the potent antiwar student protests of the late Vietnam years.
Bush was a loyal son (his dad was a prowar member of Congress), a defender of the Old Social Order at Yale (though Bush himself was utterly without its preppy snobbery, racism or anti-Semitism) and a proud DKE who saw the increasingly dominant liberals on campus as pretentious hypocrites (because, he said, many “radicals” had trust funds). Above all, they were that species most despised by the frat house world: intellectual show-offs.
....meaning people who could speak in sentences of more than twelve words, and no, "uh" doesn't count as a word.
Anyway, there you have it. Untroubled by the fears of a world that believes that he is about to start World War III, Bush harkens back to the day when American students were protesting the Vietnam war, while he was concerned with more important issues such as how many pimento-stuffed olives a pledge had to have shoved up his butt before he could become a DKE.
My confidence in him has never been higher. Really.
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