Fryday congratulates George W. Bush

This week the George W. Bush Library and Museum in Dallas was finally opened. It opened to considerable speculation as to which book, other than The Bible, the library would contain. The choice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace came as a revelation, though a spokesperson for the President quickly explained that President Bush had not read all of it. He said the President had read “about half; skipping over the peace bits to get to the war bits.” Now, in writing that passage I can reasonably expect to get sued by President George W. Bush or at least receive a visit from our GCSB. The passage is clearly defamatory or it would be without the qualification that it is nonsense, clearly made-up and clearly untrue. It is satire. The same satire Fryday employed with Bush’s Letters to God and Helen’s letters to her therapist. It is the same satire that I intend to employ in respect—but without respect—to the Conservative Party leader Colin Craig. Should I be worried? Well, Mr Craig threatened to sue The Civilian, but then again he stated emphatically that he, Mr Craig, had a well developed sense of humour. A well developed sense of humour and a right-wing and righteous Christian seems a bit of an oxymoron to me, but I’ll let that pass. Archaic phrases such as “Day of Reckoning” (on the redefinition of marriage) are more telling. For what it is worth, and to George W. Bush it is worth very little, Fryday congratulates President Bush and his family. Every former President receives a library; President Bush is no less deserving. If I have mocked it, then I hope I have done so gently and in good humour and in some reverence for our shared past. As for Mr Craig? Well, I reckon that day of reckoning is still to come.