By now, many of you may have heard that Ron Reagan Jr. doesn’t like the current president. His pro stem-cell research argument during the Democratic Convention was well publicized. He’s recently written another, more scathing indictment of our charming commander in chief and his posse for Esquire magazine (link below), but my favorite snippet is this one:Full article here

“And chances are your America and George W. Bush’s America are not the same place. If you are dead center on the earning scale in real-world twenty-first-century America, you make a bit less than $32,000 a year, and $32,000 is not a sum that Mr. Bush has ever associated with getting by in his world. Bush, who has always managed to fail upwards in his various careers, has never had a job the way you have a job—where not showing up one morning gets you fired, costing you your health benefits. He may find it difficult to relate personally to any of the nearly two million citizens who’ve lost their jobs under his administration, the first administration since Herbert Hoover’s to post a net loss of jobs. Mr. Bush has never had to worry that he couldn’t afford the best available health care for his children. For him, forty-three million people without health insurance may be no more than a politically inconvenient abstraction. When Mr. Bush talks about the economy, he is not talking about your economy. His economy is filled with pals called Kenny-boy who fly around in their own airplanes. In Bush’s economy, his world, friends relocate offshore to avoid paying taxes. Taxes are for chumps like you. You are not a friend. You’re the help. When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends, you’ll be left picking shrimp toast out of the carpet.”

As a friend from work (who tipped me to this article) said: “This is just about the best written piece I’ve ever read about Bush. Michael Moore’s flick (still unseen by me, so no comment there) aside, this lays out the failings of the present administration “in terms so plain and fair as to command their assent.”