America's lack of self-awareness

I'm going to blame this on the president too, because, I just like to blame him for everything.

In recent days, we've seen Bush criticize China for their human rights record, using the same language that some use to criticize the US over our torture policies. We've also seen Bush complain about Russia invading a sovereign country (which didn't stop us in Iraq or the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza) but never mind. My key problem is this: Bush might be the least self-aware person on the planet.

This guy might not even know the definition of the word hypocrisy, and it seems like it's a disease, spreading to all parts of American culture and media to some degree.

So take this story. People are all freaked out because China had one little girl sing (because she had a great voice) and had another little girl lip sync the song and pretend to the be singer.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-china-lip-synchedsong&prov=ap&type=lgns

The author seems outraged, but do you think for one second that Americans wouldn't do something like this for, say, the SuperBowl? Heck, we would have given the pretty seven year old child a face lift just to make sure that she was up to our standard of beauty.