Jimmy Joe Bob

My wife, the Missus Herself, has a BS meter so powerful she could scare a buzzard off a s**t wagon with a single glance. For example, a few weeks ago she heard G. W. Bush make his usual ridiculous claims during the State of the Union Address about our success in Iraq and how wonderful the economy is doing. Her comment, "now do you understand why I can't stand to listen to this crap."

Her point of course was, who could take politics seriously considering the idiocy of Bush and his crew these past seven years. Disaster upon disaster while claiming everything is going according to plan in his upside-down world.

I'm the political junkie in the family but realized she was right, and who of sane mind would try and defend what's happening in Bush's political world. So I shut up.
Which leads me to Jimmy Joe Bob.

Jimmy Joe is our next door neighbor down south when the MH and I have the opportunity to visit our beloved southern home. We're northerners, so going south during the winter months is always a treat for us. Nevertheless, Jimmy Joe Bob is an actual person, only his last name is not Bob, I made that up.

Jimmy Joe is as redneck as it gets. This guy is so scary he believes the Klu Klux Klan are liberal commie pinkos. He thinks George W. Bush is the best thing that ever happened to America and he believes all your kids want to sign up for a stint in Iraq. Now the ironic thing about Jimmy Joe is, he needs to sell his house, maybe because of me, or maybe because he and his wife recently lost their jobs in spite of the wonderful economy.

In any event, we've all heard about the disaster that is Florida real estate and to this end Jimmy Joe is asking a hundred grand less than what he tried to get last year, yet he still insists the economy is doing just fine.

I'm not trying to make fun of Jimmy Joe, I actually like the guy, but he's so typical of southern white bigots that he can't see through his own racism. And further, he's too stubborn to admit that Bush and his economic policies have damaged him personally.
The sad fact is, Jimmy Joe and his wife are not an isolated situation. Approximately 30% of Americans still give Bush a favorable job approval rating in polls. I mean, come on, how dumb do you have to be to think Bush gives or even knows a rat's ass about problems facing the normal dude.

This is the face of today's America under George W. Bush, a country that now rewards the already rich and penalizes the struggling masses, a country that now stands for exactly the opposite of what it was purported to be about for over two centuries, a country that is now lost in its own false patriotism.

So great was America for its leadership role to promote human values that the world seems dumbfounded by her collapse in a short seven years. If only Jimmy Joe Bob and his like could understand what is really happening, America could recapture her former glory. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home