Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The Bizarro President
Which reality do you inhabit, Obama World or Cheney World?
Eugene Robinson, "Worldviews Collide"
Some of the deeper philosophical discussions I had with friends as a 10-year old were about Bizarro, the imperfect Superman clone/nemesis. Bizarro had to act according to his nature, so there was some question as to whether or not he was truly "evil" like, say, Lex Luthor. Place Bizarro in a Bizarro World (Superman carved a square planet for him) & he made Bizarro sense & posed no threat to humans or Superman.
It hadn't occurred to me that Dick Cheney was the Bizarro president. In Bizarro logic, the Vice President would be the Chief Executive of the Disunited States of America, elected unfairly by a minority of the people. Indeed, Cheney was that. In Bizarro logic, the Vice President would hide from the public while in office & give speeches when he no longer held it, & campaign when he wasn't running for anything. The problem is that Cheney thinks he's in Bizarro World. Since we can't create one for him, a federal penitentiary would be an adequate approximation.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Eugene Robinson, "Worldviews Collide"
Some of the deeper philosophical discussions I had with friends as a 10-year old were about Bizarro, the imperfect Superman clone/nemesis. Bizarro had to act according to his nature, so there was some question as to whether or not he was truly "evil" like, say, Lex Luthor. Place Bizarro in a Bizarro World (Superman carved a square planet for him) & he made Bizarro sense & posed no threat to humans or Superman.It hadn't occurred to me that Dick Cheney was the Bizarro president. In Bizarro logic, the Vice President would be the Chief Executive of the Disunited States of America, elected unfairly by a minority of the people. Indeed, Cheney was that. In Bizarro logic, the Vice President would hide from the public while in office & give speeches when he no longer held it, & campaign when he wasn't running for anything. The problem is that Cheney thinks he's in Bizarro World. Since we can't create one for him, a federal penitentiary would be an adequate approximation.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, culture, George W. Bush
