Last exit fascism.

[Doug Millison]

I agree with the guy I heard on Democracy Now this morning 
(http://www.democracynow.org) who described Bush as the choice of the 
corporate oligarchy.  Such a puppet, it's amazing that everybody 
couldn't see the strings on TV last night.  The things they can do 
with 3D modeling software these days -- it looked as if Bush was 
actually speaking those words!  Amazing lip-sync integration.

FYI, my family lived in Midland, Texas when W was growing up there; I 
didn't know him, he was among the guys whose families could send them 
to fancy prep schools back East, but I knew quite a few people that 
ran in that crowd (my father worked in the service end of the oil 
business, selling specialized equipment to the exploration and 
production guys like Bush Sr.). A sick scene, by any measure.

My favorite moment in his speech last night was his gratuitous 
literary allusion to M&D, when he compared himself to George 
Washington, "whose friends called him George W."   And nobody laughed.

Good thing those protesters didn't have a chance to release the 
skunks at the convention -- it would have been a tough call, I 
expect, deciding which ones to send back to the zoo.
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