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I couldn't do his job
Okay, the President is an idiot. I'm not going to argue that point. I don't think anyone on my friends' list would either. And even though I consider myself fairly smart, I don't think I do could do Bush's job.
This has nothing to do with what I perceive as my ability to run a country, prosecute a war, or buddy up to the oil industry. It's because I wouldn't take the job very seriously.
I mean, calling up the Premier of China and ordering take-out? Yeah, I can't see that going over very well, except on the comedy circuit. And if I wasn't harrassing Wen Jiabao over that mu shu pork that hasn't arrived yet, I'd be laying into him verbally over the failure of communism. "Listen Wen, we've got this city here in the States, called Berkeley. They've been communist for just as long as you, and they've really been trying it. And you know, those Californians... smart as a whip. Crazy as a shithouse rat, half the time, but smart. And if they can't get it to work... well, I'm just saying..."
This has nothing to do with what I perceive as my ability to run a country, prosecute a war, or buddy up to the oil industry. It's because I wouldn't take the job very seriously.
I mean, calling up the Premier of China and ordering take-out? Yeah, I can't see that going over very well, except on the comedy circuit. And if I wasn't harrassing Wen Jiabao over that mu shu pork that hasn't arrived yet, I'd be laying into him verbally over the failure of communism. "Listen Wen, we've got this city here in the States, called Berkeley. They've been communist for just as long as you, and they've really been trying it. And you know, those Californians... smart as a whip. Crazy as a shithouse rat, half the time, but smart. And if they can't get it to work... well, I'm just saying..."
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His reply was "Best performance of my career..."
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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