August 31 , 2006

Leftist Fantasy: Bush Assassinated on Screen

A new British TV docudrama called “Death of a President” revolves around the assassination of President Bush.

Since the beginning of his first administration, I have worried that the left’s intense hatred of Bush would boil over into serious assassination attempts.  Every president faces them, but few Presidents have been this intensely hated by their opponents since the Civil War.

There are many parallels between Abraham Lincoln and Bush, and the left is welcome to laugh. Both were elected under disputed circumstances which led some to doubt their legitimacy as President. Lincoln was elected in 1860 with only 40 percent of the popular vote while the northern and southern democrat candidates split 47 percent.  

Both were hated intensely. Both were accused of shredding the constitution (Lincoln threw confederate sympathizers into jail and suspended habeas corpus). Both were viewed as in-over-their-heads and incompetent, and in fact, Lincoln was probably in over his head with the Civil War, as Bush sometimes appears to be in Iraq.

It should provide haters of Bush on the Left and in the Muslim world with 93 minutes of pure viewing pleasure.