Boy-President in a Failed World?

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on July 12, 2005, Printed on July 12, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/23469/

As reality grows ever darker, our President never ventures far from his scripted version of a fictional world that is nowhere to be seen.

On Thursday morning, with the London bombings monopolizing the TV set, I watched our President take that long, outdoor, photo-op walk from the G-8 summit meeting to the microphones to make a statement to reporters. Exploding subways, a blistered bus, the dead, wounded, dazed, and distraught just then staggering through our on-screen morning, and there he was. He had his normal, slightly bowlegged walk, his arms held just out from his side in a fashion that brings the otherwise unusable word "akimbo" to mind.