High Quality Cunts

This is Excellent: The Indy has an interview with Julian Cope:

"It's great he's got in, cos everybody can feel better for a while," says Cope. "But [Obama] won't do anything about the things I'm talking about because he had enough money to run for president and that makes him a cunt. Albeit a far higher quality of cunt."

Sadly he's not in full on psychedelic madman mode but whatever. It's still interesting and not that I'm on the outs with Obama, it's good to hear progressives ripping into him.

(Really, progressives? When did that term come about for the left? it's just another asinine game of semantics. Like Dawkins trying to get Atheists to call themselves 'Brights.' Ugh. I just did a little throw up in my mouth.)

Anyway, Good ol' Rupert Cornwell has summarized Bush's 8 years in office. It's pretty grim reading:

Say what you like, George Bush has been a transformational figure. Under him, almost everything in America has been transformed – alas for the worse.

And:

Almost everything he touched went sour – from the global image of the US to the economy, from the military (stretched almost to breaking point by two wars) to his own Republican party, and the conservative cause once championed by Bush's hero Ronald Reagan. By almost every measure, the country is in a worse state than when he took over on 20 January 2001.

And:

The truth is simpler. The perfect job for Bush was the one it seemed briefly he might get, of commissioner of major league baseball, back in 1993 before he ran for governor of Texas. By experience, temperament and character, he was unfitted to be president in any age. We can only pray that four or eight years hence, we won't be saying the same about Obama.