Only Nature could deliver up this sort of poetry. A sunny day, a press conference in the Rose Garden, a little sparrow voids its bowel on the American President. Just a tiny bit of karma excreted upon a heap of human waste.
Perhaps it was the yet to be conjured prayers of NBC reporter, David Gregory, that Providence heard.
Gregory asked why President Bush should be considered a credible source on terror intelligence. This is a fair question, a good question. After all, bad intelligence relied on by this administration and the good intelligence ignored by this administration have plunged America into compromising positions worldwide. Wars for godssake. The President's answer: terrorists are a "threat to your children, David." Of course, in truth, car accidents and swimming pools pose the most immediate threat to David's and all of our children. The President dodged the opportunity to contribute to meaningful discourse. He could have said, "Now I've made sure the CIA does Y instead of X. I've taken these measures to insure Z standards are in place. The FBI and Pentagon are filling up databases with the likes of the would-be Falwell funeral bomber." As Americans have come to expect, President Bush takes the low road when it comes to dialogue. He personalized the terror threat as if Gregory had suddenly forgot about Osama bin Laden. What the President doesn't seem to get is that you can't be condescending when everybody else in the garden has got about 20 IQ points on you...it just exacerbated the intellectual deficit issue this President sports...which is a national disgrace.
The bottom line here is: just because terrorists are a threat, doesn't mean the President can be trusted to offer, we the people, truth. The President's spastic red herring response speaks volumes about the dire conditions in the executive branch. Americans have no trustworthy leadership. How do Americans know when to believe a president, a politician, when these leaders mislead so recklessly?
The President gives a red herring. Providence answers with a sparrow. Too bad elephants don't fly.
