Is George Bush the Devil?

For years now I've been hearing about how George W. Bush is responsible for everything from global warming to the increase in the price of Coke. He's started wars, pushed up the price of oil almost single handedly, and allowed a horde of illegal immigrants to descend on us. So I had to ask myself if it was possible he might be the Antichrist foretold by so many ancient oracles. Oddly, it only took me one speech to decide he's not smart enough to be the one.

You see, truly evil people are usually cold and calculating, able to conceal their true motives from the public at large until it's far too late for them to do anything about them. Witness the rise of people like Pol Pot, Lenin, Hitler, and Ted Kennedy. Bush just doesn't rise to that level of competence. As a matter of fact, he can barely manage a prepared speech in front of a sympathetic audience, let alone some vast underhanded conspiracy.

So why is it that I keep hearing how he's the evil mastermind behind all that's wrong with the world? I think there are a number of reasons, beginning with the inability of some left-wingers to accept that not everyone appreciates their vision of a socialist utopia. Then there are those that feel guilty about their vast wealth and transfer their feelings to the rest of us to cope with them. After all, it's so much easier to blame our society as a whole than to deal with your feelings yourself.

Finally, there are the politicians, always ready to scapegoat someone else in the media to cover up their own misdeeds. One wonders if Lot wouldn't have even more trouble finding one righteous man in Washington than he did in Sodom. The list of which party has been caught in more scandals seems to vary only by which is more powerful at the moment, leaving little doubt in my mind that they're all generally up to no good.