The President's Job
Two quotes.
Bush to Larry King, when asked about torture:
"And my job is to protect you, Larry. And I've given it my all. I've given it my all."Sara Vowell:
Whenever I hear the president mention, oh, every 12 minutes, that his greatest responsibility is "to protect the American people," the insufferable civics robot inside my head mutters: "Actually, sir, your oath, the one with the Bible and the chief justice and the Jumbotron, is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. For the American people are not mere flesh whose greatest hope is to keep our personal greasy molecules intact; we, sir, are a body politic -- with ideals."
2 Comments:
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At 10:17 PM, January 14, 2009
John B. had this to say...
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At 10:47 AM, January 15, 2009
Anonymous had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->He may have given it his all, but he hasn't done particularly well with either of those jobs.
The insufferable civics robot inside Sara Vowell's head is eloquent, snarky, astute, and possessed of more integrity than one could possibly scrounge up from the entire Bush cabinet taken together.
Also, if George W. Bush really thought, for the past eight years, that his job was to be Larry King's bodyguard, why couldn't he have told us sooner? He could've done that full time, and then the United States could have had a real president instead.
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