Bush as Elmer Gantry

Running Scared has an excellent post this morning on how Bush is very much like Elmer Gantry.

....Gantry, was born to wealth and privelege by the standards of the time and as a young man lived a life of debauchery. He later Saw The Light And Found God, becoming a born again speaker of the Lord's words and found himself uniquely suited for politics. The book opens with this passage:

"Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk...He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously."

Take a moment and replace the word "senator" above with "president" and tell me if that sounds familiar.....

I'm sure that Lynne Cheney and Laura Bush will insist that Elmer Gantry be removed from school reading lists and libraries now.