Next verse, same as the first...

As is my wont, I was reading last night before sleep, again from Angela Carter's Shaking A Leg, collected writings. Here is some excellent pointed descriptive commentary about a political figure in Britain : "All the qualities that make her like the 'bad guy' in wrestling...have gone into the resultant Thatcher package. She is loathsome for precisely those reasons for which she is most admired. For conviction, read monomania. For strength of purpose, read pig-headedness. For cleverness, read low animal cunning." Hmm. Change the name to Bush, and I think Ms. Carter's spot on, especially that last bit, about low animal cunning. I've been arguing for that since the Shrub and his lot cheated their way into power six years ago. Carter continues her brilliant skewering: "It is the face, and the pose, too, of a Person of Destiny - and there seems no denying she has personally associated herself with that 'fulfillment of our nation's destiny' of which she spoke to the Scottish Tories, no doubt in serene confidence there was not one devolutionist amongst them who might have queried the appropriateness of the possessive pronoun.
However, the nature of that 'destiny' is as imprecise as the location of the 'Shining city on a hill' invoked as the destiny of the USA by Ronald Reagan during his pre-election debate with Jimmy Carter in American TV. Possibly her destiny and his destination are, in fact, the same city, luminous with radioactive dust and no longer identifiable."
I do hope she wasn't prescient on this last bit.