[Marxism] Gore Vidal: Bush as President Jonah

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

President Jonah, Meet Oliver Cromwell!
A Dig led by Gore Vidal

Today, as I sit, like so many Californians, at the heart of what  
seems to be a vast burning bush, I realize that Jehovah’s jinx of the  
weirdest American president is as operative in this lowering pre- 
Halloween season as it was last February when, guided by Scripture, I  
posted here on the Internet the bad news that our nominal president  
was seriously jinxed by an unrelenting deity who, from his throne of  
fire, now blows fiercely upon the west coast of the United States,  
spreading from San Diego to Malibu to Lake Arrowhead. Lucifer’s  
finest new-minted flames, a reminder to us, President Jonah’s Supreme  
Court-appointed subjects, that our ruler is triply cursed for his  
disobedience to obey his Lord not only long ago at Nineveh, but  
lately compounded by his inability to destroy all of Baghdad, a city  
hailed in that magical musical comedy, “Kismet,” by a song entitled  
“Never underestimate Baghdad.” But a jinxed president’s estimate is  
bound to be fatally wrong even in the eyes of his creator.

While contemplating the ill-starred presidency of G.W. Bush, I looked  
about for some sort of divine analogy. As usual, when in need of  
enlightenment, I fell upon the Holy Bible, authorized King James  
version of 1611; turning by chance to the Book of Jonah, I read that  
Jonah, who, like Bush, chats with God, had suffered a falling out  
with the Almighty and thus became himself a jinx dogged by luck so  
bad that when a Stone Age cruise liner, thanks to his presence  
aboard, was about to sink in a storm at sea, the crew for safety’s  
sake threw him overboard and—Lo!—the storm abated. The three days and  
nights he subsequently spent in the belly of a nauseous whale must  
have seemed like a serious jinx to the digestion-challenged mammal  
who extruded him much as the decent opinion of mankind has done to Bush.

Full: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060207_president_jonah_redux/
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