This morning a story about a couple of jokers is on my mind.
“Oh, Jimbo,” many of you are asking, “Do we have to hear more about your poker exploits?”
To which I answer, no, this isn’t about poker at all. By the way, the games I play don’t have any wild cards. This is about Dubya and some other joker. Here, read the story.
Bush and the joker
I guess that Bush addressed the White House Correspondent’s Association last night and he brought along Bush impersonator Steve Bridges to translate what he said. It was a lot of laughs for everyone. Yet, I wonder if it has sunk to the point that even Bush knows he can no longer be taken seriously.
I am a proponent of humor as an aid to get all of us through the tough times, but I am concerned that we may all chuckle at Bush, the comedian, while the business of government is not done and the sanctity of democracy is undone. Much as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Dubya ridicules himself as the things we hold as important are incinerated and their ashes are scattered by the winds of history.
Someone once said it takes a big man to laugh at himself, but I wonder whether the person that said that had some joker standing beside him, mocking him at the time. While Dubya becomes the Homer Simpson of American politics, the rest of us can laugh all the way to the poorhouse. I, for one, think it’s time for Bush to take himself seriously. After all, he is the President, and not some nitwit out to get some laughs by making a fool of himself, or am I wrong about that?
At least, that’s what we think, here in Jimbo’s world.
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