four legs good, two legs better

So, since the beginning of the Second Gulf War, President Bush has denied the press the right to film the caskets of dead soldiers as they come off the planes in Dover. It has been claimed to be for the respect and privacy of the soldiers and their families, a worthy claim, I suppose. I mean, I guess if I wouldn't have wanted the casket of my mother shown on television or in the papers knowing that some would use it as a political chess piece of some sort...

...like what Bush is now doing with the victims of the terrorist bombings of 2001.

Bush's candidacy was kicked off yesterday with an ad campaign that claims inherited recessions and burst stock bubbles and the like and claims grand leadership from der fuhrer..ehem, I mean Bush in handling those problems...and then screams what will most likely become the single issue of a single issue candidacy...

The screen shows the rubble of the Trade towers, shows the casket of a fallen firefighter and claims the wonderment that is George W. Bush and uses these images to suggest his great leadership.

...leadership that's based on exploitation of national tragedy, a limelight that could have shown just as brightly on anyone else, reactionary jingoism in the third degree. Leadership that is seemingly only visible when national tragedy is invoked, which I would argue is not even leadership at all. All the while resting on the use of images to prop himself up that he dare not allow others to use to discredit him.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

God Bless King George.