Quite the Consistent Princess

Recently, I've been unpleasantly accosted about what I think about Bush's forceful cheerleading for troop increase in Iraq (on the left, on the right, and in the Post). Its been unpleasant in that, given my interview season absence from newspaper-junkidom, I been far from aptly digesting the nuances of current world events.

Good thing we have our current Commander in Chief. He's simple.

Bush's policies have been far from nuanced and demonstrate a very limited understanding of the world's complex economic, political, and social connectedness. As I have been recently using and accruing frequent fliers at an unprecedented rate, I, will employ an airline experience I had just before the cabin door closed on a San Diego-Houston flight. Let's begin.

We must think of Bush as that obliviously loud, Valley-cadenced, fashionista high-schooler on cross-continental flights.

You know her. She's the one with the haute couture (read obscenely bug-eye) shades that suggest entitlement and wealth, though her $70 "Princess" t-shirt and overwhelming scent of suntan lotion and perfume removes all doubt of this. She defiantly rejects low respectful tones in favor of grating and all-too-audible cellphone account of her recent beach house party drama with "Becky," "Ahmadinijad" or other appropriately clueless compatriots. Ms. SoCal repeatedly and cavalierly punts the backs of chairs around her with her pink de rigueur Ugg boots, and refuses the restrained requests for civility (which soon evaporated to visible disgust and vulgar mumblings) much to the chagrin of a varied group of tired souls whose history and apparent imposition is unknown to her.

She is Bush.

As for the Bush's new request for troops sans civility?

Someone's about to get kicked off the plane.

In any case, the whole situation reminds me of a painfully apt quote I read by Emerson in the Foreword of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Here's to consistency.