the devil and Mr. Chavez

I just want to take a moment and come to the defense of our President. I admit that i've said negative things about our George before. But when Hugo Chavez calls him The Devil, I think we need stop traffic and get a little perspective. The devil is not real. Chavez may well know that. But to give Bush the so called "props" that are usually reserved for the Big D, is to give a bit too much credit to our war torn Commander in Chief. I mean come on. The Devil has a reputation for having been around for thousands of years. Bush is barely 60. Having had a drinking problem and having a history of terrible executive decisions does not bring someone to level of the Lord of Hell, the tax man of souls, the #1 fallen angel. No way. Bush is just a man. I think he has good intentions. But fundamentalist terrorists also have good intentions, though I think theirs, like our George's, are the intentions of misguidance. Like Bush, and Chavez as well, they think they are doing acts of goodness, but are generally antithetical to a peaceful and happy world. They are acts of people who apparently fail to acknowledge that they are only human, and therefore cannot know the truth. George Walker Bush may be a little out of his league in the oval office, but he is not the Devil. I can't say whether or not he smells like sulfer.

Chavez, while it was nice of him to say that he is not against Americans, and that he hopes we will elect a new president (which it looks like we will since Bush hasn't changed the constitution to allow him an indefinite stay in power as Hugo has done), is a lot like Bush. Except that one is a power hungry socialist, and the other a power hungry Capitalist evangelist. They both seem to think that they know that what they are doing is right. That is dangerous. We're just a bunch of humans, just a bunch of over-intelligent monkeys. Let's give The Devil his due. None of us are that supposedly bad, we are just generally misled and over-confident. Great intelligence is not insurance against fucking things up. Often it is to the contrary. Just ask Einstein and the Atomic Bomb. Or the person who figured out that steel could be molded into weapons. Or Jesus.