Big Mouth Bush

You've probably already seen something about Bush's gruffly sophomoric commentary on the situation in the Middle East caught by a still-on microphone at a G8 event. He's making one of his signature tough guy faces and chomping on a big ole cheekful of hard roll. Nevertheless, I wanted to post it here, if only to keep the buzz going, or document history, or something. It can still be hard for me to believe that this shallow, vulgar, ignorant, reckless bully is the President of the United States of America in the 21st century.

Bush's summary of what needs to be done about the Middle East crisis, between chews, amounts to this:

See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.

If only the world would listen to The Decider, eh? This is what passes for penetrating analysis and effective strategy in BushWorld. And he chews like a pig, to boot. Here's a transcript of the entire exchange by the Washington Post. It omits the chomping sounds. Here's a video of a segment of the conversation from Reuters that includes the chomping. Funny but not surprising that the mainstream media is hung up on the fact Bush uttered the word "shit." Out here in the real world, we're more concerned about how offhandedly shallow he is about this crisis.

The always measured and factual Juan Cole provides commentary on Bush's statements, which ends with this chilling observation:

It is a little window into the superficial, one-sided mind of the man, who has for six years been way out of his depth. I come away from it shaken and trembling.

I can relate. And I can also think about what our world might be like right now if someone with this writer's sensibilities were in charge. (Be sure to savor the quotes by conservatives with a drooling WW III jones.) I hear the train a'comin and it isn't any kind of peace train....