“A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. The measure certified … would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.” (“Bush Sewage Plant pushed,” The Denver Post, 18 Jul 08)
This waking-life response to Mr. Bush’s ongoing concerns about his presidential legacy is dream-like in its outrageous, yet accurate response to an imbalance. Like a sleep dream, this scenario has multiple levels of meaning.
On a practical level, Mr. Bush’s concerns and worries would be soothed in a very tangible manner, with a community service facility bearing his name.
It probably is not a coincidence that the public building to be dedicated to President Bush processes human waste. There are many who see the years of his presidency as having wasted great quantities of American resources, financial, physical and emotional.
Finally, this waking dream, in responding to what many see as the ongoing waking nightmare of the Bush administration offers a comment upon the quality of the president’s legacy, equating what he has said and done to the matter that a sewage facility processes.
