Where’s an exorcist when you really need one?

  Is anyone else as creeped out as I am by the constant sight of the elder Bush and Bill Clinton glued to each other’s hips as they travel around the world on various missions of mercy and understanding? Get a room already, guys.

Every now and then you see Bush Jr. peek his patented smirky mug up between the two (much) taller men — cain’t fergit me, y’all! I’m the preznit now!. But doesn’t it seem like the two real presidents — uh, I mean former presidents — just can’t seem to stay away from each other? Or the cameras?

Now, I’m not saying it’s The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. We all know better, at least in Bubba’s case.

I’m saying it’s confusing. Here we are in the most viciously, absurdly partisan America since 1850, and here are the last two presidents — one of whom beat the other one, for Pete’s sake — palling around a few years later pretending like their country isn’t going down the toilet because of one of their idiot sons.

And this thing where the White House told Jimmy Carter he couldn’t be part of the official U.S. delegation to JP2’s funeral — that’s as low-class and petty as it comes, even for this bunch.

I’m not a particular fan of Carter’s, but to snub any of the living presidents of the United States of either party is simply beyond understanding and beyond forgiveness.

George W. Bush rules the freaking world. You mean to tell me he can’t arrange for two extra places for Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford? If Condi Rice gets to go, by God, Jimmuh and Gerry can go, too.

Speaking of creepy — what’s with Laura Bush looking like an extra from the Corleone baptism scene? Does Karl Rove get a focus group together to figure out how Republicans can suck up some more to Catholic voters? Hey, let’s dress Laura up like Carmen. That’ll go over real well with them Cat-liks.

Does dressing up a Methodist librarian from west Texas in a black dress and veil make her kind of Catholic? Catholic for a day? Can one even be “kind of Catholic?”

What’s next — Bush taking communion? How stupid do they think Catholics are? Pretty stupid, apparently.

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