Time for your prostate exam, dad

Time to indulge my sneaking love of politics. I like George W. I particularly like the way he tells you exactly what he wants to do and then does it. It is fascinating the way he just doesn't seem to give a shit about what the rest of the world thinks and I admire that. His personal style when compared to Al Gore's is so calming. Gore seemed rather schizo - changing his appearance and demeanor at the first sign of criticizm. Lobbing wild accusations one minute and making wild claims the next. I don't know whether it is good or bad that we have gone to war in Iraq; the Iraqis seem stunningly unworthy of democracy or any more of our attention at this point since all they seem to do is whine. This may just be bad media coverage though.

But I have watched the whole thing play out with interest. Bush never wavered. People are calling Iraq a quagmire (as they have from the 4th day in), but my personal feeling is that the UN was a quagmire. And Bush never wavered. He told everyone what he was going to do, asked for takers, then did it. The UN bitched away, and rendered themselves irrelevant as a governing body. You'd think they'd at least want to take part in the reconstruction for business reasons, but apparantly that is why the world economies are in a quagmire and ours isn't. The Brits have the right idea. Verbally outspoken in support, but they let us bear the brunt. They get a huge piece of the reconstructed pie and go on their merry way. Too bad we don't have that option, but we are too busy being everyone's daddy.