Bud Selig’s President June 23, 2008
Posted by glabwrites in 7872800, 9/11, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Big Mike, Bud Selig, Conspiracy Theories, Fay Vincent, George W. Bush, Golf, Major League Baseball, Michael G. Glab, Osama bin Laden, Texas Rangers, Tony Blair.2 comments
I don’t hate George W. Bush. Nor do I think he’s a bad man. I do believe he’ll go down as the worst president in the nation’s history.
Today, when we disagree with someone, it has become almost compulsory to demonize that person. Too many people who wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama in a hundred years are eager to portray him as a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden. It’s not good enough to simply try to tear apart his positions; anti-Obama-ites must reduce him to a cartoon villain. Don’t think the left is any better. A significant portion of the citizenry fervently believes that President Bush knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks, or worse, had a hand in planning them!
Political discourse in 2008 has all the subtlety of an episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown.
All that said, it’s not political hate speech to brand Bush as the worst president ever. Somebody has to be that guy. You can have Warren G. Harding or Millard Fillmore or even Tricky Dick. I choose Babs and Poppy’s kid.
Babs, Poppy, and the Future Worst President Ever
Bushie Boy seems to be a likable lunkhead. He’s the kind of guy who’s a scream on a fishing trip. He’s probably great in a golf foursome. He has an ease of manner that seems to break down all pretenses. His dealings with foreign leaders are refreshingly casual, as illustrated by his badinage with Tony Blair and his attempt to relieve Angela Merkel of her stress. Heads of state view themselves as visitors from Mt. Olympus. Bush, perhaps because he’s all too pedestrian himself, often reminds his counterparts that they’re just folks.
That’s not enough qualification, though, for him to be the leader of the world’s sole superpower. Bush would be a better fit as commissioner of baseball. Former Commissioner Fay Vincent says Bush spoke to him about becoming commissioner back in the early 90s while he still owned the Texas Rangers and before he ran for governor of Texas. According to Vincent, Bud Selig, the acting commissioner at the time, put the kibosh on Bush’s ambitions because he (Selig) wanted the job – sans the “acting” qualifier – for himself.
Right Where He Belongs
Think of it. The most important man in 21st Century American history so far might be the car salesman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Despite encouraging Bush to go for the job in face to face conversations, Selig maneuvered behind-the-scenes to sabotage him, inadvertently setting Bush’s political career in motion.
Kingmaker
I may not hate George W. Bush but I sure can’t stomach Bud Selig.
