Nine months ago, in preparation for a move to Florida to start a new life, a good friend of ours (I'll call him Wayne) sought the wisdom of a Portland psychic (I'll call her Zelda). Zelda apparently pushed all the right buttons. "It was like she knew everything about me," gushed Wayne, reciting all her predictions of a sparkling future in Orlando---from career to love life and everything in between. Pulling up the stakes was literally `in the cards' for Wayne. And off he went.
Last week Wayne moved back to Maine. Things didn't work out they way he---or his psychic's crystal ball---had planned. When I asked him about the accuracy of Zelda's predictions, he said that she had gotten it all wrong. And he was just a bit miffed.
And I got to thinking. Our current president's track record is virtually no better than that of a hack psychic. From Iraq to jobs to deficit reduction to the effect of tax cuts to Bull markets on Wall Street to No Child Left Behind to securing our infrastructure from terrorist attacks...[pauses to catch breath]...to nabbing Osama to the Medicare discount drug card plan to "saving" Social Security and that whole line of bullshit about being a uniter not a divider, George W. Bush has dangled one rosy prediction after another in front of our faces. And he has gotten it all wrong.
It's difficult not to smirk at Wayne's gullibility, but at least he learned his lesson and won't be visiting Zelda the two-bit psychic again. Last November, however, 62 million gullible Americans dragged us all back for a second 4-year session with Preznit The Magnificent. I, for one, want my money back.
From Daily Kos.
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