He had the face of a man who knew, in his core, albeit a bit too late, that his name and his career had entered some unexpected superhighway where he found himself going against the traffic. He saw traffic coming against him, his name and his career, and there was nothing he could do to avert the onslaught of a collision.
Alberto Gonzalez, a man seemingly as enamored with power and control as is George W. Bush, a man who said he will not resign and who says he is going to put up a fight for his post, looked and sounded more like a man who paid a great price for the instantaneous insight into what the price of coasting in a relationship with Bush is.
He looked more like the worried man who knew that his dream for greatness had just vanished—whether he stays on as Attorney General or not.
He now knows that his name and his career are tarnished.
He looked and sounded like someone who has just learned that lying goes against the grain of justice unless you happen to be a Bush. They (the Bushes) seem to escape whatever justice comes out to meet them due and owing in part to their money with which they buy many people.
He has learned the painful truth that the name Gonzalez does not carry with it the same weight as the name Bush does and, he seems to have learned that while he labored under the illusion that he, too, was as powerful as any of those who carry the name Bush, ultimately, the name Gonzalez is just the name of a man bought by Bush to do his bidding.
He seems to have learned, too late in the game, that standing up for truth and justice is more of a reward in and of itself than being owned by the conglomerate of the powerful but criminal family name of Bush.
He learned somewhat late that Bush (and really all of the Bushes do too) takes a lot out of people and he gives nothing of value or worth in return.
I do believe that in his press conference, Alberto Gonzalez was stung by the knowledge that whatever obstacles and mountains of obstacles he had to overcome to get to where he was standing, they had, all, almost instantaneously, come to naught due to his symbiotic, bought and paid for association with Bush and with Bush’s lies and crimes.
He learned that he is no George W. Bush.
He learned that, just as Kyle Sampson is his fall guy, he, Alberto Gonzalez, is George W. Bush's fall guy.
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