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Sunday, April 25, 2004

Sunday morning

It finally dawned on me just who Bush was talking about when he told Bob Woodward that his own father “is the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength.  There’s a higher father that I appeal to.” At first I assumed the obvious, namely, that George H. W. Bush was the “wrong father,” that is, not George Bush’s father at all (hence the paternity anxiety on the part of the elder Bush, an anxiety clearly marked by the decision to give him the Name of the Father).  But then I realized I shouldn’t be so literal-minded.  Obviously Bush was speaking metaphorically, and obviously he was talking about Vice President Cheney.

Our father, who art in Halliburton.  Now, just what do you think Dick the Stronger Higher Father is going to counsel Bush to do in Fallujah?  My guess is that Cheney will say something that involves some variant of the word “smite.”

And then what happens?  I can’t begin to imagine.  Maybe I should be reading those Left Behind books after all.

Posted by Michael on 04/25 at 06:59 AM
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