Bush was in San Diego, the place where I live, and incidentally, a place where there was not a hurricane today! I innocently tuned into KPBS this morning only to be aurally assaulted by Bush's faux-accented pronunciation of Missouri ("Mizzura"), which reminded me that he was in town this morning speaking at a Naval base to commemmorate the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in 1945. His message was, as could be expected, multi-faceted. It was kind of hard to hear above the roar of blood in my ears, but here's what I got:
WORLD WAR TWO EQUALS WAR ON TERROR EQUALS WORLD WAR TWO EQUALS JAPAN EQUALS OSAMA HUSSEIN AL SYRIA TERROR FREEDOM HATE IRAN NORTH KOREA JAPAN WORLD WAR TWO IRAQ
There was also the requisite skeptic-bashing, and then he yelled out some names of widows, and I think he recited Shelley and performed an interpretive dance based on the rage he experiences when his motives are questioned, and then I actually heard him make that face he makes when he's waiting for his words to sink in, and then I turned it off.
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