do you feel well-represented by an unread President?

Our President, George W. "The National Guard was a better choice than injuring myself to avoid the draft" Bush, freely admits that he only "scans the headlines to get the drift" of the news. He depends on his minions to provide him with what he interprets as the Real News.

Either he is in an advanced state of denial, or he is simply lazy. Or both. I tend to believe that he is simply lazy, with a touch of denial for flavor. I guess that's his New England Texan version of spice. (Maybe he has a touchy colon - no pun intended - and just can't take the real spice that the truth provides.)

Nevertheless he is the most uninformed President I have ever heard of, and I am something of a student of United States history.

William Jefferson Clinton was a voracious reader, and an extremely hard worker. Despite his faults and foibles (which were personal rather than criminal, for the most part - there was only one felony conviction in his entire eight year Presidency, and it wasn't him), he was on top of the issues. Harry Truman's quote, "The Buck Stops Here," was well represented in Clinton's administration.

Dubya's father, George Herbert Walker Bush - for whom I had little respect during his lackluster reign - was likewise well informed. Sadly for him, this knowledge did not always serve him well. I have my own theories as to why, but I'll reserve public judgment for now.

Ronald Reagan. Ouch. There's a name that rings "in infamy," at least inasmuch as the lower to middle classes are concerned. Regardless, he was much better informed, despite the fact that he was clearly in the early stages of his own decline by the end of his second term, than Dubya has been at any time during his only term.

Reagan was a sharp guy. I didn't agree with his politics, and he visited a major disaster upon the American public (though the already wealthy and the religious right did benefit financially from his policies), but in his earlier years he really had it on the ball. Again, I never agreed with him - but he did have a way with the people, and he had a grasp of situations.

Dubya has no real grasp of situations. He has a frat-boy's way with a crowd, to be sure; which is great if you're rallying for a team (he was a cheerleader) or pulling together enough people to pay for a kegger. The sad thing is that the American people fell for his marketing ploy, hook, line and sinker. Like catfish on a stinkbait, the public bit onto his putrid chicken liver offering - that smelled so good to them compared to the healthy, reasonable alternative - and have been dragged in without a fight.

It is most fortunate that many of them are starting to notice the hook in their lip and are starting to fight. Others have already swallowed the bait and may not even know that it's too late for them.

I, for one, have a good nose for rancid stinkbait, thus I avoid it. That's why I voted for Clinton - twice - and also voted for Gore. Call me crazy, but I like the idea of having a President who is as smart or smarter than I am. Dubya Bush doesn't even come close. The man is utterly unqualified for the office he now holds.

A President who only reads the headlines is not fit for the office. He may be fit to be a monarch, or a tin-pot ruler who has no need of the real news.

Is he is afraid of the news, or is he too lazy to read it? Either way, he is unfit. Vote To Impeach Him.

Oh, by the way. I mentioned above that there was "only one felony conviction" in the Clinton administration. This is in stark contrast to the Bush I and Reagan administrations. Ollie North, John Poindexter (who was let off on "a technicality" - which was that they needed him to testify against someone else), and numerous others - it added up to well over a dozen between the two regimes - who headed the criminal administrations? I'd say that the evidence clearly points to Reagan and Bush I. And remember this: both Reagan and Bush I were much more restrained in their morality than Dubya. He wears the Cross like a medieval Crusader, but is as trustworthy as a carnival barker.

Don't believe me? Check his pre-election claims about how he would act on the world stage, and compare them to how he really acted - even before September 11, 2001. Lies, lies and more lies.

Oh, if only that man had a Pinocchio nose. The bugger'd be too long to fit in the Presidential limo by now.