What a Fool!

From time to time events reach my attention that are so outlandish or so compelling that I have to make a side track from my intent to make this a blog for and about Euthanasia. This is one of those blogs...

The Huffington Post, always a good source for news you won't hear through the Fox News Network, has a little piece on Jimmy Carter calling GWB the 'worst president ever'. Worth looking at, but what I am going to draw your attention to is the image that leads into the piece.

Here it is. Do you see anything unusual about it?


Well let me help.

All the other Presidents have managed to show sufficient humility to have their official portraits painted with simple backdrops.

Not GWB. He equates himself with the likes of Jefferson, Lincoln, Rooseveldt, and Washington as depicted on Mt. Rushmore.

Each of the others has been President, but that is the only similarity between any of them and GWB. For GWB to think that a meer representation of himself in the same picture frame with the truly great leaders of American Democracy will erase his blight is ludicrous.

The man, as former President Jimmy Carter said, is a disaster. History will laugh longest and loudest at this act of self promotion which, now that it is enshrined in the National Gallery, will stand forever as a hallmark and reminder of deceit and ineptitude.

What a fool...

And for what it is worth, here is my take on the portraits of the other Presidents preceding the current fool on the hill.

Jimmy Carter... hands folded in an attitude of reverential prayer
Ronald Reagan... 'Hey. It's all about ME!'
George Bush, the other... paper pushing bureaucrat
Bill Clinton... 'If there were a Bible there, my hand would be on it'.
The Fool... 'I should be up there'