So-oo-o

God talks to George Bush?
Or so Mahmoud Abbas asserts quoting the President to the effect that "God" told him to depose the Taliban and invade Iraq.
And as we all know the Prime Minister of the PA would never lie or exaggerate.
What do you suppose God sounds like in the airy spaces of George Bush Junior's mind?
Perhaps the Almighty affects Candace Bergen's dulcet tones?
Or maybe the Eternal takes on the smooth syrupy chuckle of ....Howard Da Silva?
I'm joking around here because that is really all I can do in this crisis...
I mean, the President (or so the Mahmoud Abbas reports) hears voices which he has self identified as that of the Protestant God of Thunder and Fund-raising.
In any other reasonably well run nation claiming the Almighty speaks to you is bound to raise a few eyebrows, especially if you happen to be the Head of the Government.
Not in America though, we love the Little Lord Jesus with a homespun democratic ardor, ANY Hammerhead can claim to be on intimate terms with the Son of God sans reproach.
Maybe this is for the best.
Because the alternative means casting aside our cherished notions that Bush is lazy, dumb, or a skilled but malevolent politician in favor of simply identifying him as psychotic.
THAT raises issues for us all regardless of ideological persuasion.
Yup you read it here firstest, parsed in the best journalese, The President is allegedly psychotic.
Conservatism is dying in this country (along with a lot of other quaint notions like the once lofty democratic spirit) for a lot of reasons, now we have a new one...the movement has chained itself to the fortunes of one man whose wits might be faltering in a dangerous way.
It all looks like beer and skittles now to Grover Norquist but when the President starts up with the glossolalia on camera with other world leaders it might put a dent in his polling.
Think about that Grover.