a wrongful obsession

we are well and truly concerned and worried about all the wrong things. god may be in the details, but i seriously doubt he is in the details we obsess ourselves with.

with the current furore surrounding the resignation of british prime minister tony blair, i am struck by one key detail - he is censured for one thing only, his association with george w bush and the war and terror. the british economy has otherwise thrived, indeed done relatively well under his regime. this one blemish, huge and all-encompassing tho i admit it is, is really the biggest mark in his otherwise ok-ish performance.

i have another example. bill clinton is, till today, ridiculed and scorned for his extra marital affairs while in office. his administration however has received far less attention, even though it deserves much more. it is a crying shame that such an intelligent president, with very effective foreign policies (most of all), economic policies and education policies be treated in the way he is. honestly, america's most loved president, JFK, did exactly teh same thing. we just love him so much bcos he was killed so tragically. had he been allowed to run his term like Clinton did, im inclined to think that we would all thing far differently of him.

george w bush on the other hand has displayed the personal morals and intelligence of a shoelace - yet was REELECTED. was it him being protestant? afraid of catholics are we then?

so now the american public is scrambling. even though congress is predominantly democrat, the button that says 'bomb here' is still under bush's hands. so they will panic.

obsess THAT.