Saturday, January 26, 2008

Harper's Scott Horton: "The Illustrated President"

W. H. D. Koerner, "A Charge to Keep" (1916)
THE
MADNESS
OF
KING GEORGE?
Excerpt ... "[ President] George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a 'born again Christian.' ... Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography. ..." Read more. End Excerpt ...
My guess is that Bush is well aware of the painting's province and the historical research cited in this link gives me thought to the possibility that he is not only aware of the fraud, but thinks it a clever deceit for mass consumption. The painting prominently placed in both his office, autobiography, etc. is by his [and maybe, Rove] own design to mythologize the everyman persona cultivated so folks like many of my relatives and neighbors can support him. The psycho-pathology of this dude is damn scary, especially when coupled with a power-mad vice-president for the transnational corporate combines. It lends to the current perception around the world that any global hegemonic catastrophe is possible with hands such as these piloting the world's largest nuclear superpower.
While solving the mystery of just how sick our leaders are, readers would be wise to make preparations as such ... again read Horton's article and think.

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