The unspeakable behavior of Bush and his team

What words are adequate to describe a president who tells American airline companies to exercise the greatest caution against possible Muslim terrorists, then sues an airline for keeping a suspicious Muslim off a plane?

What words are adequate to describe a president who tells us we are in a war against Islamic radicalism, then says: “I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden [italics addded] a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company”?

As a man without credibility? As a man who is instinctively dishonest? As a man who gets his kicks from openly betraying, and demonstrating his moral superiority to, the people he is ostensibly leading?

Whatever George W. Bush’s twisted motives may be, his conduct in the ports affair remains literally unbelievable. To repeat: The American people, threatened by Muslim terrorism, are rationally questioning the wisdom of giving an Arab Muslim government operating control over U.S. port terminals, and the president, aided by his op-ed apparatchniks, accuses them of “Islamophobia.”

Michelle Malkin has a must-read column about it.

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Gary writes:

Race baiting is nothing new from Bush and his people. Bush has a history of implying that people who disagree with him are racists. Do you remember the “vigilante” business with the Minutemen? And then there was Karl Rove telling J.D. Hayworth that he “just doesn’t want to help brown people.” If Rove is throwing around those sorts of accusations at a congressman of the President’s own party in a semi-public setting, what do you think the boss is saying in private conversations in the White House? Which also raises the question, what do you suppose Bush says in private about evangelical Christians, his political base? My gut tells me that he’s a small, mean, petty individual, a kind of Jimmy Carter in Republican drag, who thinks everybody is beneath him.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 01, 2006 01:08 PM | Send