What is it about George Bush that he draws incompetents to him like a moth to the flame.
If the doddering likes of Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez and George Tenent weren’t scary enough, bumbling enough, now we discover the president’s press secretary would get an F in American history.
During a recent appearance on National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino admitted she was clueless about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, who also earned a masters degree from the University of Illinois, Perino recalled she was asked during a recent press briefing about remarks Russian President Vladimir Putin had made equating plans by the United States to establish a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe to the old Soviet Union sending missiles to Cuba, which set off a nulcear confrontation in 1962.
“I panicked a bit because I really didn’t know about the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Perino admitted.
“It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure,” she noted. Gee, do ya think?
It’s pretty troubling that the chief spokesman for the United States of America had no awareness of one of the most significant moments of the Cold War.
It’s also pretty troubling to have a dumb blonde joke walking as the leading spokesman for this country.
You have to wonder if Perino is vaguely familiar with the Berlin Wall coming down, or the Kennedy assassination, or Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. After all they happened oh so long ago.
Then, again, do we really want to know?