Bill Maher on Bush’s Missionary Zeal
The "Real Time" host compares the arrogance of missionaries to that of the president, who claims certainty as a virtue: "And the message you hear from Bush apologists these days is, 'Oh, sure, short-term Bush may have f--ked everything up, but he's thinking long-term -- hundred years into the future.' Well, thank you George W. Nostradamus, America's first science-fiction president."The “Real Time” host compares the arrogance of missionaries to that of the president, who claims certainty as a virtue: “And the message you hear from Bush apologists these days is, ‘Oh, sure, short-term Bush may have f–ked everything up, but he’s thinking long-term — hundred years into the future.’ Well thank you George W. Nostradamus, America’s first science-fiction president.”
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