So, being that I'm back in the saddle for drive-time talk radio, I was listening today and heard reference to an article entitled "How Bush Thinks: Intuition Over Intellect." Here's the link. I know, it's an op-ed piece, and therefore certainly not Gospel, but one man's opinion. But this man, Jonathan Chait, makes some good points. The bottom line is that our Butthead-in-chief consistantly forgoes reason in favor of how he feels. Even when faced with hard, irrefutable facts, he still goes with his gut. Look, I often bemoan pure reason's inability to reconcile the phenomona of faith and the necessity for faith in our inexplicable world. BUT when you have stuff that IS explicable, stuff that there IS hard evidence for and you still insist... argh. I realize that this puts my faith in jeopardy, because if anyone brought me hard evidence of the non-existance of God, then I would either have to accept it, or take the George W. route and just go with how I feel... But the things that Bush is presented with in the Times article aren't things like the existance of a higher power, they're things like this guy did or didn't do steroids or the fact that he did or didn't oppose children's healthcare. He lets his feelings dictate his grasp of reality past, present, and future. And this is why we went into Iraq without strong reason, and this is why despite whatever he said about firing whoever outed CIA deep-cover operative it's not going to happen because it's one of his closest friends that outed her. I guess the fact that he follows his feelings entirely and ignores reason and logic isn't as disconcerting as the fact that his feelings never change. He always feels like he's right. There's no learning going on there. No change occurs, he just goes on grinning and allowing people to die at home and abroad. The 'W' stands for 'Widowmaker.'
posted by MAtt D. at 8:27 PM