Rox writes:
"Incompetence" is a meme we're going to hear much more in the next three or so years. Not just because it's true, but because it's much easier to sell to the American public. Because telling the American public the policies were wrong means telling the American public THEY were wrong. And you never make the sale when you tell the buyer they made a bad decision.
She's right but it goes even deeper than that. I was thinking about this today while waiting to pick up my kid at school. Before 9/11, Americans readily accepted that BushCo was a boob (they didn't elect him after all). So all this incompetence talk taps directly into their "I was fucking right" nerve.
That's also why McCain is such a danger. The corporate media's narrative for him is that McCain's the guy they really wanted. Everyone who is writing him off now is nuts.
I'll do my part to stem the coming tide of McCainy Love.
As for me I've always opposed the "Bush is an idiot" meme but recently I have come to think that incompetent is a good word to describe him. Not to say he isn't also evil of course....
But it just seems like he doesn't care enough about anyone to govern anything effectively, or allow anyone else to do so. Perceptions and magical thinking and "catapulting the propaganda" and being ever so careful not to actually say that Saddam was behind 9-11 --- those are the important things, and in staff the important thing is to have yes men who are loyal.
Posted by: DavidByron | March 22, 2006 at 09:14 AM
Good one, eRobin! What is it with the love affair between the corporate love affair and McCain?
Posted by: Helga Fremlin | March 22, 2006 at 05:20 PM
Sorry, should have been 'the corporate media and McCain'!
Posted by: Helga Fremlin | March 22, 2006 at 05:22 PM