Pity the fool

Pity is never a pretty thing, but we should appreciate how sad it is that someone that started with such a great opportunity has wasted his entire life. Even if you or I wouldn't take advantage of some of these situations, imagine you had any or all of the following serendipitous events happen to you:

1) Your family is so rich that you don't know what to do with all the money (oil).

2) Your father is first a senator, then head of the CIA, vice president for eight years, and then president of the most powerful country in the world (1 term only).

3) During a horrible war where 63,000+ Americans died, your dad pulls some strings to get you a cushy job in the National Guard avoiding the draft and you don't get in trouble for not showing up for that.

4) You get cushy jobs with no experience as a campaign advisor, oil business board member, major league sports team owner, governor of the second largest state, and president of the United States and fail miserably at every single one of these.

5) You commit several felony insider trading acts that put Martha Stewart to shame and because your father owns the Security Exchange Commission, they strangely decide not to investigate.

6) You get at least one DUI completely removed from your driving record that would most likely ruin your political career.

7) Your family has connections to most of the bad guys perpetrating the worst terrorist act in this nation's history, but starting a completely unrelated illegal war and killing and maiming millions of people is not considered wagging the dog by most Americans.

-- You get all of these advantages. You get to start way out in front of everybody else. You have all these doors open to you. You become the most powerful man in the world with no experience, no personality, no education and no character and what do you do with this opportunity:

1) Become a cocaine and alcohol addict.
2) Become a born-again Christian but never go to church.
3) Cut up and remove brush in Crawford Texas for a vacation.
4) Commit felony insider trading for a measly 80 million dollars when you family is worth billions.
5) Use your supreme power to declassify information that should stay classified just to pettily get back at someone who submitted an unfavorable report about your project.
6) Sacrifice the poor to help out the rich by cutting programs that help them, effectively raising their taxes, not doing anything to give them affordable health care, helping the energy companies bilk them while making record profits and outsourcing all their jobs to countries with horrible human rights conditions.
7) Isolate the country (us) with the most potential to help the rest of the world by dropping out of every treaty, starting illegal wars, undermining the United Nations and doing everything possible to create unrest and chaos around the world.
8) Create a deficit larger than all previous presidents combined and a national debt that is so big, no one really can imagine it. Nine trillion dollars adds up to $30,000 for each and every American alive today. That's $150,000 that my house owes.
9) Do everything you can to kill the national education system that is one of the best in the world.
10) Sacrifice the environment so that corporations can make a few extra dollars.

So here we have a learning-disabled, unethical pretender in the white house and we spend all our time in the media laughing at the way he says nookyuler, or how he makes up words. Give it a break. It would only be a little worse if he resigned and we got that evil guy Cheney instead. Who cares if in twenty years no one remembers how bad he was and we start naming airports and highways after him like that evil Reagan. He won't be able to do any damage and we'll probably hear less from him in retirement than we did from Ford.

He'll be gone and hopefully we can all pitch in and clean up his mess. We'll have to mourn for the millions of people he maimed or killed, and many of us will be devastated economically or worse, but many of us will survive and it won't help to hold a grudge. Let's move on.