I've blogged about this over at Grassroots for Grant, too, where I concluded this letter writer is not being ironic. From today's Idaho Statesman:
Carole J. Mooney asks what this president has
done right ("OK, the specifics," Letters, Dec. 13). During his first
four years as president, Bush performed so well that he gained the
confidence of the American public to such a high degree that they
re-elected him to serve another four years.
What could be more right than that,
I ask? And certainly after democracy is established in Iraq, under the
Bush administration, corporations can start building factories and
outsourcing business to Iraq. As a businessman president, that is one
of his main objectives for the invasion. And what could be better than
that, it helps drive the price of labor down in the United States? That
is what a businessman does.
John G. Rainey, Nyssa, Ore.
Excuse me, I'm feeling a little verklempt (probably because I am having part 2 1/2 of an ongoing root canal today ... but I digress.) Head on over to GFG, talk amongst yourselves, and tell me: Is this really what American business stands for? And if it is, (how) can we change things?
You've got to be kidding me.
Posted by: thepoliticalgame | January 02, 2006 at 10:00 AM
My initial guess would be sarcasm, but I'm afraid the writer might be for real...
Posted by: Bubblehead | January 02, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Um, George W. Bush has failed up his entire life. Any business he's touched has died, and then there's the matter of the US defecit. Apparently this is not a column about George W. Bush, but Bizarro George W. Bush.
Posted by: Sara | January 02, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Well, if you consider Rainey's past letters to the editor, you'll find they are long on brick-throwing emotion and short on logic or facts.
Posted by: ak | January 05, 2006 at 11:20 AM