George Bush or children’s television…

President George Walker Bush has a great deal in common with children’s television. As we’re all aware, children’s television commonly focuses on the development of the imagination and the employment of rudimentary language and hyperbole. In doing so, it often presents outlandish scenarios that are constructed on the fantastical – such as large yellow birds that are able to speak to invisible elephants. Interestingly, President Bush also presents outlandish scenarios constructed on the fantastical, though I cannot confirm that he engages in conversations with invisible elephants – though I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that he does.

Like children’s television, President Bush, who has unfortunately been gifted the moniker of the world’s most powerful man, commonly addresses audiences employing scripted, teleprompter aided, fifth grade level vocabulary. Unlike children’s television, which is also scripted, President Bush commonly has trouble successfully giving a speech without making errors.

Unlike children’s television, the fantasies promoted by President Bush do not involve talking roosters that live in bags or trains that transport the public to a land of make believe. Of course, like children’s television, the Bush administration does employ puppets.

Unlike children’s television there is only one lesson to be learned from Mr. Bush’s Presidency. Children’s television, on the other hand, mixes it up and commonly focuses on something new in each episode.

On occasion, characters on children’s shows sometimes perish or are injured in attempt to teach children about mortality or safety. Mr. Bush’s Presidency shares this similarity in that it has killed and injured thousands of children.

Like children’s television, Mr. Bush’s Presidency acts as a reminder to thousands of mothers across the United States - that their children are gone.