So, that would bring us to the man that continues his reign as the nation's 43rd President, George W. Bush. He finally got to exorcise the clanking ghost of his old man, a one-term wonder that was unable to capitalize on the popularity that war brought him in order to be re-elected. Everyone knew that George Junior was about as obsessed with this as he is obsessed with anything, and that he was determined not to repeat what the old man did in 1992, and get himself re-elected, legitimately this time. So he threw himself into that task with unparalleled vigor and intensity for the last year or so, pulling out all the stops to ensure victory. After a very long night where he had to stay up way past his 10 PM bedtime. He finally got the news that he had longed to hear for four years now, that he had trumped the old man and done what he could not do, gotten himself re-elected. Not only that, he got himself re-elected with a majority of not only the Electoral College, but a majority of the Popular Vote as well, becoming the first President since his old man in 1988 to do that, not even Bill Clinton was able to pull that off, and he wa selected twice. So George W. Bush did everything that he wanted to and more. He now gets to gloat over his old man and that has always seemed important to him, the ungrateful son that he is, if he thinks that he would be where he is without the help of his old man, he is deluded, but he seems to take pleasure in sticking it to the old man, that he is doing better as President than Dad did, how much did you see of his father during the campaign season or on Election Night, like nothing of him at all. George W. Seemed to want to do this re-election thing without any help from his dad, and he did so, and now he gets gloating rights in the Bush household. He also gets to say that the American people do support him like he always said they do, because millions of them voted for him this time and they were the majority. Now he can declare that he ha sa mandate from the American people to forge ahead and finish what he started, defying all those naysayers that have been saying that he does not represent the majority of Americans, the Howard Sterns and Michael Moores of the land, who have ben pointing to how he was elected in 2000 ever since then as proof that he does not represent what he thinks that he does. On Tuesday, Bush put that shit to rest once and for all and that part of the victory was every bit as sweet as the part where he gets to lord it over the old man and old lady. That day was essentially the pinnacle of George W. Bush's life,as everything that he had ever done for many years was pointed to that day, and he accomplished it all at last. He hears the Sterns and Moores freaking out all across America about how that was the darkest day in American history since September 11th, 2001 and all that. These folks are wailing and gnashing their teeth no end about what the future holds for America now that George W got re Elected, saying that it is a portent of all sorts of doom and destruction for America and the world at large. However, what the future holds for America is not that cut and dried an issue, it rarely is. For even though George W. Bush got legitimately re-elected President this time, what he might or might not do may not be as terrible as these people think that it will surely be.
A lot of the hysteria surrounding this is the fact that Bush is now a certified lame duck, he is ineligible to run for President anymore, and is looking towards nothing except retirement starting on January 20, 2009 at 12 Noon eastern Standard Time when the second term ends. For many, that brings chills and horror, because they see it as Bush being unaccountable for anything, no matter what he does, that he will not have to suffer for it at the polls ever again, as he has run his last campaign. That makes them think that the dude is going to run hog-wild these next four years and just do whatever he wants to do ,and fuck whatever anyone says about it. These people look at shit like the Supreme Court and the fact that there will be at last one vacancy on that court between now and 2009, and that Bush will use it to put in place a judge that will be anti-abortion, therefore being able to turn the Supreme Court that way, and get abortion outlawed in America like the religious right wants, and since they were a huge part of the Bush constituency that they shall get what they want at terrible costs to the nation as a whole. In fact, most everything that these pundits are freaking out about now centers around Bush kowtowing to the religious right and doing whatever they want him to do, no matter if it is the majority or not. Since he is essentially no longer accountable to anyone anymore, they seem to feel that he will rule as a tyrant, issuing decrees and ignoring anyone except himself. After all, they have good reason to feel that way, as they have seen him act that way in his first term, with the way that he went about the war in Iraq as the biggest point, that he essentially ignored all those that told him not to do it, including his own father, and just went and did what he wanted to do about it all, and with disastrous results. When you look at that, it can certainly look as if America is rushing headlong to disaster with Bush at the helm for four more years. This is the dude that lied to everyone about Weapons Of Mass Destruction and shit and said that Iraq was far more dangerous to the USA then it actually was, and has been proven wrong about everything that he said time and time again ever since the war began and has been singularly unapologetic about it too. He still says that the only mistake that he ever made was trading Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox, and that had zero bearing on National /World Affairs, although Sammy Sosa seems to think otherwise,as he seems to think that everything that he does has great bearing on these things. But other than Sammy, no one else thinks that this is the worst Mistake that George W has ever made, but he never says otherwise, and that infuriates many people. They see that as an arrogant attitude, and if he carries that attitude into this new term where he is unaccountable to anyone, that disaster will certainly result. This is the warning cry that is being sounded by Howard Stern and Michael Moore so loudly as they rake in the millions of dollars that they are making themselves off of all of this. They seem to see nothing but doom in America's future, so they are raking in the dough just in case. However, are they as accurate as the claim, or could things possibly not be what they think? Will George W Bush be a wild tyrant that brings us all into the depths of ruin (except for Howard Stern and Michael Moore of course) or will be be something else like he said that he wants to be yesterday. He actually had a press conference, which he does about as frequently as we see blue moons, and he said that he wants to bring America together again and unite society and reach out to the the American people and hear what they have to say, not just dismiss them as peons. Many scoffed at such rhetoric, saying that it was all a pack of lies just like the scare stories of Iraq having nuclear weapons biological agents were.
However, these people might not be looking at the whole picture here. Yes , it is true the George W Bush is no longer accountable to anyone, and guaranteed a comfortable retirement for life, and since he is not an old dude, that could be a while. It is also true that George W Bush is a product of many people's creation, starting with his father and going on to Mr. Businessman and Mr. Politician and Mr. Warmonger and Mr. Pig and so on and so forth, who have done nothing but groom him to be where he is today for years now. George W knows full well that if it was not for these folks, that he would probably be on welfare (the dole) somewhere, living in a trailer of some kind with a big, fat old battleaxe wife and some screaming, dirty, wild brat kids running around the place while he watched Desperate Housewives and WWE TV and wished that he could live a wonderful, glamorous life like the people on these TV shows do instead of the shitty, hopeless one that he had. The only thing that saved him from this fate was his dad and the friends and cronies that his dad had that worked with young George and molded him into the perfect frontman for The Establishment that he has become. George is quite happy with that, don't think otherwise, but he might not have been so happy about some of what he had to do in order to get there over the years. He had to give up his won mind and always listen to these people and do whatever they said, even if he thought otherwise. He played that act all through his oil days, his baseball days, the Governorship of Texas, and for the last four years, the White House. Whatever these people wanted, he had to do no matter what. He had to profess to being whatever they said that he was, not what he thought that he was, and he could never do differently. Until now, that is. Now, he is free to not be a total puppet for these folks and build the legacy that history will judge him by. Now that he is in for a second term, George W is going to start thinking about that legacy right away and building it into what he wants it to be. What he wants it to be is a legacy like the ones that Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan have, legacies of great American and great leaders that performed magnificently during their time in the White House. Whether or not this is true is open to debate, but these are legacies that we are talking about here, so those tend to distort and stretch things a lot. George W wants a legacy like that, not a legacy like Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton or even his own father had, a legacy tainted by scandal and marred by failure. So everything that President Bush will do from now until January 20, 2009 is going to be geared at that. Yes, he will still make Mr. Businessman lots of money through war, he will expand the war scene into Iran in the next few months, and rev up that already runaway money train that the war has generated, once he started that fucker in 2001, it was off to the races, and he does not have to do much to try and stop it. However, if things start to go badly in the war, wherever it is, by 2007, watch for Bush to pull a Richard Nixon,and suddenly start making all of these efforts to end the war, he will say that it is a stalemate and a drain on America, and spend the last two years of his Presidency trying to put an end to what he started. He will be unsuccessful, of course, but that will be great for the legacy, he will be remembered by the historians as a man that tried to make peace in the face of war instead of a man that started war, because he will be doing the peacemaking at the end, and that is what will be remembered, the most recent shit. Same for abortion, when the Supreme Court vacancies come up, he will not fill them with these radical anti-abortion judges, because he does not really want abortion illegalized, as he knows that this will lead to a host of social ills for America, and that blame for these ills will be placed on him because he appointed the judges, and that is bad for the legacy. Remember that George W is as big an egomaniac as there has ever been in the White House, and now that he's home-free, he will want to feed that enormous ego first and foremost, and obey those that always controlled him secondly, and that will translate into his not doing everything that they want him to do, but he will do enough to keep them fat and happy for four more years, good for the legacy you see. When you look at it that way, it looks like the next four years of Bush might not be all that bad, that we may have seen the worst of him, as he only did that shit to get to where he is now, and now that he's there, he does not have to listen to them anymore and he can act in ways that are purely self-serving first. This could be what we are in for until January 2009, but what form that will take is the wild card here, reason for concern but not full blown freaking out like Howard Stern and Michael Moore are doing, it is something that we all must keep our eyes on, and it could be a very interesting next four years, even more so than the last four have been.