That moment of illegitimacy

[elfs]

I was driving into work today when I heard our president this morning announce his illegitimacy. It was a moment that nobody has heard since 1974 and when I heard it I felt a strange, shrill clutch at the base of my skull.

During a press conference on Monday President Bush announced, "I think about Iraq every day." To me, this statement had the exact same flavor as Richard Nixon's famous quote, "I am not a crook." It was said in the same voice, the tenor that announces that he is not believed and he knows it and, perhaps, he is not to be believed after all.

Iraq is without a doubt the most significant news story of our day, yet the networks insist it won't play well to the American people and so it gets very little airtime; perhaps as much as the latest celebrity gossip. It is a war this President got us into. For him to have to insist that he "thinks about Iraq every day" implies that we, the American people, do not believe that he does.

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[rapier.livejournal.com]

I heard that last night on the way home, and something akin to the same thought occurred to me. You definitely said it better though. As soon as he said that, I spoke out loud in an empty car, "Why do you even have to say that?"