According to reliable sources, the genius (stable, he says) actually said this as he free associated in front of his fans:
In my last years in legal practice I took a number of appeals to federal court on behalf of mentally ill people wrongly denied Social Security disability benefits by the administrative law judges here in Connecticut. When I wrote my brief, I would commonly highlight evidence which demonstrated beyond doubt, at least in my mind, that the person in question had a serious problem This quote would have been manna from heaven.
Lest there actually be any genius fans who read this blog, who might argue that the quote was taken out of context, my reply would be simple: there is no context in which this would make the least amount of sense. I’ll admit that it’s possible to strain and come up with some speculation about the point the genius was trying to make, but, getting back to my old clients, the things they said or did made sense to them too, but they were still ill. All I can say is that it’s a good thing for disability claimants that there’s only one president at a time, because if the job existed in greater numbers, given the genius’s performance, the vocational experts would start testifying that people with extreme forms of mental illness might not be able to do anything else, but they could always be president of the United States.
Once again, the genius has done something that would be weeks to month long fodder with the pundits had any other president, particularly a Democrat, ever said it. Even Bush, had he said something similara would have never heard the end of it. I mean, “Mission Accomplished” looks pretty mild compared to this. This performance is being forgotten as I type these words.
This man is seriously mentally ill. It’s about time that fact entered the national discourse.
Update: The words of the genius, set to some of Sir Elton’s music:
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