Lord, don't they help themselves, y'all.

We've all heard the song "Fortunate Son" by CCR. It's still a great political statement, still relevant, still true. I'm thinking in particular of this line:

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand; Lord, don't they help themselves.

This explains exactly what I've been saying for a long time: George W Bush doesn't understand typical Americans because he's never been one.

Compare George W Bush to my favorite president, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was born to the wife of a traveling salesman--if you remember Willy Loman or Dan's father on Roseanne, you know that traveling salesmen aren't known for being particularly wealthy. He grew up poor in Arkansas; his mother remarried a man, Roger Clinton Sr., and Bill remembers him as being an abusive gambler. He had to work hard to get where he wanted to go, just like the rest of us did. When he made policy for America, he made it for Americans.

Now, hold that up next to George Bush's early life. Bush comes from money. Bush's father comes from money. Who was around to teach GWB what it was like to be a real American, to have to scrap and struggle to get ahead in the world? This translates to his policymaking. George W Bush doesn't look out for the middle-to-lower class because he can't fathom what life is like for us. He's never had to struggle for anything in his life, including winning an election. He pretends to be a Godly person because he thinks that Americans love God more than anything, but when pressed, members of his 'bible boot camp' that he supposedly did can't say anything about the books they studied 'intensely.' Either they're not very bright or they didn't study it very thoroughly. My guess is that they went quail hunting instead.

George W Bush may be our president, but he works for the American people. He needs to make policies that make sense to us, that help us, that are in our favor and not his own. And please, write to your Republican congressmen and tell them this--they are just as much at fault, as are the Democrats for not being stronger and not being more outspoken about the problems in Washington. We're all in this together, and working together, we can fix it.