The Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Company had learned long ago that it they could create enough doubt - or fear - in the minds of housewives as to how well their vacuum cleaners did the job, Kirby had a much better chance of selling that housewife a new vacuum cleaner at a premium price. So, their door-to-door salesmen were equipped with a glass-covered device that attached to the vacuum cleaner. Following a demonstration, the salesman would then show the housewife how much dirt was left behind that her vacuum cleaner didn't suck up. It was one of the most successful marketing strategies in history, allowing Kirby to 'clean up' in a highly competitive industry without the prohibitive expenses of advertising, wholesale distribution, and the establishment of retail outlets.
George W. Bush would have made a great Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman, probably being better suited to that than he was qualified to be playing President.
Creating fear was among the Bush administration's most consistent strategies. Virtually every speech President Bush delivered included references to fighting the 'evil empire' and warned about the next potential terrorist attack. Mothers were afraid to send their children to school for fear of possible bombings. Homeland Security established an intimidating presence among state and local law enforcement agencies, implying that their community could be the next 'target'. Leaders of other countries began to believe their only defense against the bully Bush - and the world' newest 'evil empire', the United States of America - was to manufacture and stockpile their own nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Fear and mistrust invaded the world, creating doubts about international allegiances. Neighbors wondered about the Muslims down the street; could they be members of AlQaeda? The Bush administration inspired Nazi-like programs to "turn in" anyone whom you might suspect of being a terrorist. Create doubt. Instill fear. It was the salesman's standard way to close the deal. Now the Bush administration had brought such sales tactics to the forefront of its "war on terror". No one trusted anyone anymore. It was friend against foe; neighbor against neighbor; authorities against the citizenry it was supposed to protect; state government against the federal government; world leader against world leader. The Bush administration had effectively succeeded in destroying the world's bonds of human respect, decency, trust, and honor.
O.U.T.R.A.G.E. was being beseiged by new political candidates who wanted to form their own parties with their own agendas. Every 'party' had to be given equal consideration before being 'sanctioned' by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. While the organization held no legal authority over who could or couldn't form a political party or run for office, it had become a respected clearning house for such appointments. If you or your party had an O.U.T.R.A.G.E. endorsement, you had some respectable clout - and also were privileged with O.U.T.R.A.G.E 'perks' that gave your party more visibility and credibility.
The Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, and the Green Party were thriving like never before. But new political parties emerged everyday, with new candidates wanting to run for President, or for a Congressional seat. There was the Reformed Republican Party; the Innovation Party; the Peoples' Party; the Fair Tax Party; the Social Responsibility Party; the Children's Party; the Save the World Party; and the Fiscal Reform Party. It became the job of O.U.T.R.A.G.E. organizers to try and persuade some of these candidates to join forces with others of similar ideas in an effort to assemble as few parties as possible on the November ballot.
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were no longer contenders. People had finally abandoned these two political monopolies, finally having loosened the stranglehold that had suffocated the American political system for more than a century.
No longer were people afraid to vote their conscience. No longer were they intimidated into registering as a Democrat or Republican. Most party headquarters and offices around the country had been obliterated by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombs on January 17. Even if they wanted to try, stalwart Republicans or Democrats would have a difficult time reorganizing into anything close to the power they had enjoyed just five months ago.
Further study of the Bush secret diary revealed that there were plans underway to cripple the November elections. If it appeared likely that there would be a Democratic landslide, Republican operatives were planning to fabricate another 'terrorist attack' on U.S. soil. George W. Bush had apparently become aware that similar 'operatives' were in place at the time of the September 11, 2001 'attacks'. 'While they may not have actually had a hand in [the attacks]," Bush scrawled in his diary, "they certainly were aware of what was going to happen, and did nothing to prevent it. They used me as a patsy, just as JFK's killers used Lee Harvey Oswald." It was obvious Bush was either delusional, or had finally discovered what a preposterous pawn he had been in this giant global game of cat-and-mouse. Now, a 'terrorist attack' would take place, probably in the Midwest (someplace like Chicago or St. Louis) just weeks before the November, 2008 elections. Bush would then be ordered to declare martial law, claiming that a change in administrations "at this perilous time" would not be in the "best interests of national security". Bush would remain in office until the Republicans had time to groom his brother, Jeb, for a Presidential race somewhere in the indefinite future. It was no wonder George W. Bush was headed for a nervous breakdown, or complete mental meltdown! His spoiled rich-kid ego had not prepared him to face the fact that he wasn't the smartest military genius and world leader on the planet. His family had allowed him to be used as a puppet as he dangled in front of the public on invisible strings controlled by the wealthy elitist friends of the Bush dynasty, members of the fanatical military-industrial complex, oil company executives who regarded G.W. as a moron, and big business leaders who knew George W. Bush was a simpleton.
Had O.U.T.R.A.G.E. not bombed the hell out of America's power core on January 17, 2008, Republicans operatives would almost certainly had arranged for the assassination of George W. Bush before word of his secret diary leaked out, or before Bush himself snapped and they had to carry him away in a rubber strait jacket zoot suit. George W. had been deceived by his own family, and by those whom he thought of as friends and confidants. Certainly such deception could never had come to the attention of the public, and G.W. was just enough of a lunatic to get in front of a TV camera and whine about he had been 'set up' by the people he believed thought so highly of him. It was a good thing George W. Bush was dead; now he could spend his eternal damnation in Hell castigating Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and all the others whose put their special interests above their 'friendship' with this cheerleading, drug-abusing, alcoholic college kid who they'd coached to be nothing more than their puppet President. And all this time George W. Bush thought he was some kind of great war-like leader, similar Zeus and the other Greek gods of might and heroism. All the time, George W. Bush was nothing more than a pathetic pawn, a mouse in the global game where the fat cats reigned.