#857 Familiarity Ties

I’ve noticed an interesting thing in the last year or so. More Bush news conferences. And it seems to be tied to his popularity ratings. Which seems to be tied to his familiarity.
And as we all know, familiarity breeds contempt.
It’s usually not my purpose in these thought nuggets to delve into things political. So I don’t want to do so here. But the things I’m about to say I would say about any public figure whose popularity was once high and through repeated exposure became lower.
Like Mel Gibson when we found out his thoughts on the Jewish community, and Bill Clinton when he had his subscription yanked to Cigar Aficionado.
Now I know there are still plus or minus 23% of the people out there who like Bush. And I’m not saying one way or the other how I feel. But like a loving mother of a sociopathic child I can feel one way and still see the process surrounding the whole thing.
The fact is, the more news conferences Bush gives the less people like him. It could be the news clips of him dancing with world leaders. I mean it. How a person dances is a dead giveaway in the meat-market dating bars.
Bad dancers go home alone.
But I think it’s just the more people see, the more opportunity they have to catch his misspeaks and mispronunciations and alternately surly slash silly style.
His jokes fall flat and his seriousness sounds belligerent. Like a pouting spoiled child when he doesn’t get his way and like a gloating bully when he does. That “I’ll do what I want to do so neener-neener” style that’s been so endearing to the rest of the world.
Again, I’m not one to kick a man when he’s down. But I think during his first term when he had, like, two news conferences in four years, his popularity was a lot higher.
Maybe it’s time to pull down the shades again.
It’s kind of like why older couples have sex in the dark.
When it comes to good results, sometimes seeing isn’t believing. It’s wishing you didn’t have to believe what you’re seeing.
America, ya gotta love it.