Why hating Bush is empty sport

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A little kid grows up watching baseball and roots for the players. When the team wins the players are celebrated. When it loses, the players are booed.

You get a little older and you wonder why the manager didn't take out the player who got booed, when it was the bottom of the 9th inning and you actually wanted your great backup shortstop in the field at that moment, to guarantee the best defense.

You get a little older again, and you wonder why the owner runs the team like a mediocre business, why they don't put "baseball people" in the front office and improve the farm system to guarantee a stream of good young talent.

A little kid grows up watching politics and roots for George W. Bush... or whomever. When Bush appears effective he is celebrated. When he appears ineffective, he is booed.

You get a little older and you wonder why the Republicans nominated W. in the first place, when effective and real leadership generates decades of loyal voters.

You get a little older again, and you wonder why the system generates such mediocrity at all levels, and why the real leaders seem absent in lieu of so many empty suits, and why the voters don't seem to care about competence whatsoever until the shit hits the fan.