Show 'em some skin

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Lois was right when he once said of challenger Billy Conn, “He can run but he can’t hide.” But that was obviously a reference to the squared circle about which the world sports media hovered and not the public arena of the twenty-first century. Clearly, Louis had little understanding of the sophisticated techniques of the future White House of George W. Bush to hide from his constituents and the press.

Today’s Washington Post describes a White House that is in hiding from the media and from the American people - a president so isolated by the Iraq War that he can no longer stand the scrutiny of the light of day. His pronouncements on policy and reactions to events are made to small bands of loyalists who pay exorbitant sums to see these private performances. Audiences bereft of reporters and local Congressmen – who gladly take their cut from the gate at these burlesque shows but who dare not be seen with the president in public for fear of being tainted in the eyes of the voters.

The president has become a caricature of a public official, exposing himself only to the faithful on a circuit of true believers – a peep show for loyalists. It is akin to pornography for capitalists, Evangelical Christians, and neocon wannabees. They pay huge entrance fees and watch the performance as the president tells them that everything is going great but that only he and his sidekicks can defend them from the evil outside the tent – but he's not allowed to go outside without sun block.

While only George W. Bush can defend us from terrorists and axes of evil that he finds behind every bush – no pun intended - he cannot come into the light to be viewed by ordinary men and women or by big bad reporters who ask those ridiculous questions like: Where are the WMD? What’s the connection between Saddam and Osama? If everything is going so swimmingly, why are they killing each other?

Well, you get the drift; it’s a sign of bad times when a president can't find a real baby to kiss.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/11/AR2006081101834.html?nav=most_emailed

(Unfortunately, I've goofed up my site - I think while registering it with a blogers site, so you may want to read this in the Post. It's the thrid most popular article to be emailed today.)

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Wild Bill