Jason Clarke

Sometimes I wish I had a slightly more unique name. Not that I have anything against my name, but as it turns out, there is another Jason Clarke online that comes up consistently if you do a Google search for the name (it seems to vary back and forth as to which of us comes up first, although right now its him), who is a staunch supporter of G.W. Bush. It worries me that some people might find him, and believe that I support George Bush. I don’t want to be perceived as being delusional.

I’m sure George Bush is a perfectly nice individual, with all sorts of value to society. He is, however, a shitty president. The article that the other Jason points to written by Ben Stein makes the argument that the hurricane is not Bush’s fault. Well no shit. If it were possible for an individual to cause a hurricane, this world would be in seriously worse shape. This is a typical underhanded political strategy; argue against a position that doesn’t actually exist, from a position of obvious strength. I challenge Ben or Jason to write an article that instead of arguing the hurricane isn’t Bush’s fault, argues that Bush actually reacted adequately to the event. Oh, and provide facts. Even someone that only watches The Daily Show for their news is able to understand that Bush and his cronies did not take this seriously for almost a week, until it became clear that their inaction was having a huge negative impact on the president’s approval rating.

I, for one, agree with Stein that Bush is not a racist. It’s not race that he uses to determine a person’s worth: it’s money. So while I don’t think he’s a racist, he is most definitely prejudiced against poor people. And in New Orleans, it’s basically one and the same. Most of the people there are poor, and most of them are black. Either way, they got screwed by the US government.

Oh, and just to confuse things a bit more, other Jason Clarke, I know you follow the goings on at Weblogs Inc. Given that, why don’t you give Jason Calcanis’ post about leadership a read – he explains how Bush has failed far better than I could.