Blaming Bush

It's fairly often that we hear people blame Bush for where we're at. He gets blamed for the fiasco in Iraq, he gets blamed for oil prices, he gets blamed for the failing economy. Poor George. He gets blamed for everything. And now, heading into the twilight of his presidency, he's thinking of his legacy and looking to Africa to battle AIDS while also defending torturous interrogation tactics like waterboarding. He's a classic American, paradoxical. Why? Because the ability to hold two contradictory views at once seems to be uniquely American. Or maybe not, I don't know enough about people in other places. What I'm driving at though is that Americans really are quite clueless about reality despite our penchant for reality television.

The reality about our reality is not that it's George Bush's fault. He's too easy of a scapegoat now that he's so out of favor. Really it's our fault, every one of us. It's our fault the economy is failing. We continue to put faith in bankers whose bottom line is what's best for the shareholder and not what's best for the little people. It's our fault that oil prices are what they are. What the hell did you buy that SUV for? To buy more gas? It's our own fault that we're in a war quagmire in Iraq, in part because a majority of us voted for Bush and we were too stupid to ask questions about the invisible link between Saddam Hussein and 911.

So next time you hear someone pushing blame on Bush, correct them. They can feel whatever they like about Bush, but their just casting blame in the easiest place possible when they should be thinking about blame when they look in the mirror. Time to wake up!