In the wake of the terrible events in Norway, we cats are thinking of The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived.
It's occurred to us that there was one decent thing that George W. Bush did in all of the eight years of his horrendous Presidency: Defend Islam in the post-9/11 hysteria.
Never mind that his inattention helped the September 11 attacks to occur in the first place. Never mind that he and his abhorrent Administration milked terrorism politically for all it was worth. At least, the Worst Person stepped forward — only days after the attacks — and said, essentially, Islam is not to blame here. We're not at war with the Muslim world.
Which begs a question: Where the heck is he now?
Bush doesn't have credibility on very much, but on this issue, he does. We cats would gladly salute him if he would emerge from his man cave, workout room, or wherever he hangs out in his palatial North Dallas home, and say something along the lines of "Anders Breivik is a jerk." But as far as we can tell, crickets.
Sadly, we can only conclude that Bush hasn't changed. He's remained the careless narcissist who's good at repeating lines from a Rove-authored script and who happened to be able to take shameful advantage of an extreme national vulnerability. He doesn't care that Muslims are being demonized — hell, he doesn't care about anything. He's still The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived. We cats HISS.
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