It's a Bird...It's a Plane...

...It's a Bush!

I have a relative that can't go a day without mentioning President Bush. It doesn't matter what the subject is or what the particular activity or event, it always includes or ends with a rant about president Bush (and it is, of course, always a negative). I will be so glad when we have a new President simply to stop the endless Bush babble--it's like water torture, the endless drip, drip, drip of poison.

I was raised by a Republican (my Dad who was a self-employed marketing consultant) and a Democrat (my Mom who, like many women, was a talented multi-tasker and creator of beautiful knitwear). I remember their respect for the President of the United States of America and their pride in their country (no wonder they were called "the greatest generation").

Today I read that President Bush's approval rating has gone from 33% to 38% this month but you'd never know it from reading Al Gore's recent fund-raising email charging that Bush broke the law!: "In my view, a president who breaks the law poses a threat to the very foundation of our democracy."

What law did President Bush break?

The law of being the most powerful man in the world, natch!

After all, hasn't he been responsible for just about everything bad that happens on Planet Earth?

Forget Blofeld, Dr. No, or Goldfinger, George W. Bush and Bush alone is responsible for the hurricanes that have devastated the coast of Florida, for inflation, deflation, stagnation and stagflation, for disease and unease, for global warming (along with Jesus who, it was reported last week, was the last powerful figure to walk the earth when it was the warmest until George Bush was President), and for the actions and atrocities of all the most brutal terrorists in the world today (imagine controlling these guys--whew, how does he manage to fall asleep every night)!

There's a secret part of me that is proud to have the most powerful man in the world as MY president. The Power and The Glory for ever and ever man.

But, I suppose, all this will end in a couple of years when control is restored to us mere mortals on Planet Earth and we will all return to our normal state.

Part of me is sad.