Quite possibly the best essay you will read on any blog is over at a blog called Eject! Eject! Eject! The blogger's name is Bill Whittle and he can put down a sentence with the best of them. His elouence is unmatched in the Blogosphere!
People like Michael Moore and Bill Maher and Keith Olberman would not be able to figure out how to close the canopy on an F-102. These people would be weeping with fear when those afterburners light up and you barrel down that runway hoping that engine doesn’t flame out and roll you inverted into the asphalt, or when you’re rocketing through the soup at 300mph watching two little needles chase each other, praying the next thing you see out the window is a runway and not a mountain goat.
George W. Bush is not stupid. It’s not possible to be a moron and fly a supersonic jet fighter, and everyone knows it. (VW: Emphasis added)
What George W. Bush is, however, is inarticulate. English is his second language. From what I can see he does not have a first language. Abraham Lincoln spoke in simple frontier language in an age of rhetorical flourish. Like Bush, he was considered a bumpkin and an idiot, and like Bush, he realized that there were times when having people misunderestimate you repeatedly was a real advantage. That’s goal-oriented. That’s playing the deep game. That’s cunning.
It's long,very long, but it is good. It is well worth every minute of your time spent reading it.
VW
I would agree, but cunning to what end?
Posted by: mudkitty | Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 07:23
Did you read more than just my little quote?
VW
Posted by: Violence Worker | Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 12:17
Of course...
Posted by: mudkitty | Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 09:23
The cunning part of it all is that it's a FAKE ACCENT.
Dig up the tapes from the Texas Governor debates with Ann Richards. W comes through with a perfect Connecticut Yankee's English.
I first met him in 1988 and he sounded as much a Yankee as his father -- with less than 1% of the class of HW.
He may have been smart enough to fly a Delta Dagger, but he was also smart enough to know when to eject. His flights abruptly ended during his TANG service -- and, unlike most pilots who never give up flying, he has never taken the stick again (except for photo ops -- and then with the actual flight crew doing the actual flying).
Something scared the living crap out of W in the air (he's never been willing to talk about it) -- and he's been afraid to go back up ever since.
Posted by: Knotaremf | Monday, November 13, 2006 at 09:58