Bush the "Bafoon", or "no fool"?

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 12 19:28:44 PDT 2001


--- / dave / <arouet at winternet.com> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> > One of the few books Dubya has read, "The Dream
> and the Nightmare, "
>
> Very timely. Here's what I remember of last night's
> dream...
>
> Ten or fifteen people moving about in the large
> front room of an
> apartment, with a general air of busyness/expectancy
> - various
> individuals engaged in discussions and planning, a
> few black bloc-ers,
> activists and others, all looking very purposeful,
> with an eye on the clock...
>
> And all casually dressed, save one individual
> wearing a suit, albeit
> seeming a bit uncomfortable in same - constantly
> fooling with the
> collar, tucking in the shirt, etc. The individual
> wearing the suit,
> standing impatiently looking over my shoulder as I
> sit at the dining
> room table (which has been converted into a
> workspace) is Dubya himself,
> and I'm showing him how to use a very small t-square
> ruler to draw a
> Perot-esque x/y axis graph in a spiral notebook,
> amidst the frantic
> activity and quiet cell-phone murmurings all around
> us.
>
> I pencil in a 90 degree angle, measuring the various
> delineations up the
> left side of the page, etc. as Dubya looks on and I
> try to make eye
> contact and get him to absorb the fundamentals of
> graphing. But he seems
> distracted as the clock tics and the activity
> continues around us,
> activity leading up to some unspecified rendezvous
> with destiny in an
> hour's time at some unspecified location not far off
> from where we're working.
>
> And standing a few feet away, near the wall in the
> corner so as to keep
> out of the way of the people rushing back and forth,
> is a smiling
> Michael Pugliese (who I've never seen, by the way),
> clutching a large
> sheaf of papers to his chest with a conspiratorial
> smile on his face.
>
> I awaken, mumbling "1/4 inch up, pencil in the line
> here, move the ruler
> another inch..."
>
> --
>
> / dave /

A most chilling dream . . .

Alec, chilling

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