The cheerful idiot

Salon - by Garrison Keillor - Jan. 7, 2009 (Opinion)
we allow the Current Occupant to leave the Mansion d'Blanc with a big grin in a couple of weeks, his self-esteem apparently fully intact, imagining that his legacy will emerge golden and shining in a hundred years after all of us are deceased. He is one of the cheerfullest idiots you ever saw, a man who could burn down his own house and be happy that the patio was still standing. Had Congress impeached him, his defense would have been that he was not ... More »
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by Randy Morrow - Jan. 8, 2009 - See Full Review (11 answers)
Notes: Keillor is an acquired taste. If you are a fan you will appreciate this piece if not you will probably be a bit mystified.

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by James Staley - Jan. 7, 2009 - See Full Review (12 answers)
Notes: Is this quality journalism? This is not even journalism, if by journalism we mean at least "having something to do with news." Well, he did plop into his meandering maze of words his opinion – that any educated, discerning person knows (except Republican apologists) – that Bush (W) is an idiot, "as dense as he looks."
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by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 7, 2009 - See Full Review (12 answers)
Notes: Keillor gets in some good lines before he wanders out behind the bushes and writes a sonnet. If he could have stayed on topic, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece review.
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Comment: Laura Bush is a Lady with class, no matter the misdeeds of her clueless husband. She should have left him when he was a drunk.

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Submitted by Submitted by Dwight Rousu - Jan 7, 2009 - 1:12 AM PST
Reviewed by Dwight Rousu (review), Kenneth Sibbett (review), James Staley (review), Randy Morrow (review), Fabrice Florin (review)
Edited by Fabrice Florin - Jan 12, 2009 - 6:41 PM PST
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Though an impressive wordsmith, Keillor's meandering writing style that he punctuates with pat conclusions -- in this case, life is a beautiful absurdity -- is beginning to be matched by his doddering season of life. Though superficially true, his judgment of Bush as a cheerful man with his self-esteem intact is as superficial as it is deeply wrong.
Laura Bush is a Lady with class, no matter the misdeeds of her clueless husband. She should have left him when he was a drunk.
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