The Whim of a Hat
Ivins, Molly
Small Favors Molly Ivins The Whim of a Hat Hey, the sun is shining, the blue-bonnets are out, our big music festival, South by Southwest, rocked, and the puppy wants to play You expect me to write...
...He was fully prepared for it by his time as governor of Texas...
...President Bush also informed us during the campaign that God speaks through him...
...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we," says the Prez...
...Just try to remember, folks, this is historic times...
...If ever there was a man who understood hard work, it is our President...
...We can tell that Bush still misses being governor because he said: "One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the President, governor-the governor-President...
...It's hard work...
...He said, "I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops...
...Our enemies in Iraq are very resourceful, he adds...
...But still, he is capable of deep self-awareness, as when he observed, "I am the master of low expectations...
...Small Favors Molly Ivins The Whim of a Hat Hey, the sun is shining, the blue-bonnets are out, our big music festival, South by Southwest, rocked, and the puppy wants to play You expect me to write about Terri Schiavo, Iraq, and Paul ("There is no history of ethnic strife in Iraq") Wolfowitz...
...These are, as always, taken straight from life and from W.'s mouth...
...His former chief of staff, Clay Johnson, stated that in those days, Bush's workweek consisted of "two hard half-days" broken only by his two-hour midday break...
...Bush himself has noted, "I'm also not very analytical...
...Don't worry, the President understands the financial implications of Iraq...
...Last year was a period of high stress for George W, who once again had to struggle with the education issue, observing that the "illiteracy level of our children are appalling...
...Remember, this is a contest between George Bush p?re and George Bush fils, with the old man still well ahead at this point, though I think you will agree, after reading the latest, that our boy is gaining on him...
...Ex-governor...
...He added, curiously, "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction...
...His focus on results led to this doozie on slavery: "It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left there to go to America, because their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom helped change America...
...You know, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things...
...First of all, there's the ongoing situation in Iraq, where, as he put it, "it is a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life...
...Instead, let us celebrate spring with a roundup of the President's verbal gaffes, boners, grammatical errors, and immortal contributions to logic...
...Molly Ivins, co-author of "Bushwhacked," writes in this space every month...
...And he uttered these profound words of wisdom: "Free societies are hopeful societies...
...On general strategery the President said, "The best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forward to describe the location of the holes, is to give clues and data...
...Bush is not into process...
...You must admit "kill at the whim of a hat" is almost worth the price of admission...
...Then there was Bush's spluttering in the first debate: "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough...
...This disappointed many who thought the Almighty knew how to pronounce the word "nuclear...
...And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat...
...Oops...
...End of recap...
...It's incredibly hard...
...Oftentimes, we live in a processed world-you know, people focus on the process and not the results...
Vol. 69 • May 2005 • No. 5
