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Seriously, when New Orleans was under water, Bush found it in him to cut his vacation two days short to check out what all the commotion was over.
But Sacha Baron Cohen gets the Khazakhstan government in a tizzy, and now there needs to be "discussions"?
Discussions. Plural.
Regardless of whether you believe that Cohen's portrayal is disrespectful, I would suggest taking it on faith that his character is just that, and maybe, just maybe, people can make that distinction.
I guess the reason this jumped out at me is that I was out with a friend of mine last night, he oddly suggested that Bush was not to blame for the Iraq war. Congress was.
It took a somewhat contrived analogy toward businesses, and a point that even if middle management (Congress) screws up, or if your department heads fuck up (Rumsfeld), it still falls on the CEO to make some actual decisions.
Heads should roll, and if none do, it sorta sends the impression that the CEO approves, and also is to blame for the catastrophe (or good of a project).
Of course, that wouldn't have been necessary if he just accepted that Bush is not completely powerless, here.
- S
But Sacha Baron Cohen gets the Khazakhstan government in a tizzy, and now there needs to be "discussions"?
Discussions. Plural.
Regardless of whether you believe that Cohen's portrayal is disrespectful, I would suggest taking it on faith that his character is just that, and maybe, just maybe, people can make that distinction.
I guess the reason this jumped out at me is that I was out with a friend of mine last night, he oddly suggested that Bush was not to blame for the Iraq war. Congress was.
It took a somewhat contrived analogy toward businesses, and a point that even if middle management (Congress) screws up, or if your department heads fuck up (Rumsfeld), it still falls on the CEO to make some actual decisions.
Heads should roll, and if none do, it sorta sends the impression that the CEO approves, and also is to blame for the catastrophe (or good of a project).
Of course, that wouldn't have been necessary if he just accepted that Bush is not completely powerless, here.
- S