Excuse, but isn't this the President who said "in the long [view] we're all dead."

That is Dubya's 'long view.' Otherwise known as 'Who cares what people think. If all goes to hell well in the long view I'll be dead and sitting next to Jesus so fuck them all.'

Intelligent men and women, members of Congress, the State Department, CIA, the military, people with far more understanding, experience, knowledge and wisdom, all combined with a substantial majority of a populace usually known for ignorance of the world, apathy toward decision making, and blind patriotism defined by "kill em all, let God sort em out' are overwhelmingly opposed to Bush's plan.

If we were to find the country's village idiot, the one who rants on Main St and tosses his feces at passing cars and ask him his opinion. And if he were to pull the entrails out of a psychotic chicken stir them around and say "Surge is a bad idea." It would still be sound advice.

Why the hell do august gentlemen and women continue to follow this fool into a rathole when they should know better and understand the consequences of not stopping him. What is it about this country that gives all faith to blind charges into darkness while abandoning those with the courage to say stop this foolishness?

A guy in shining armor on a white steed may seem romantic and attractive but there are times like this when one could really fall in love with a good dike.

I know George Bush has set the bar pretty low for presidential candidates but is that really a good thing? Barak Obama may well be a great man an intelligent man heck maybe the Tiger Woods of politics, but then again he may be the Jimmy Carter of politics; a great man, a sincere and intelligent man who has good ideas and yet so incapable of accomplishing them, he ends up losing to the next Ronald Reagan, and the evil spawn of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld retake the Whitehouse.

If anything about this disasterous administration should have taught us its to ignore media darlings. From Ross Perot to Ralph Nader they are losers. They may mouth the platitudes we so believe in, but this is politics not American Ido. If we want to see real change we must elect someone who knows politics, knows politicians, and most of all knows where all the bodies are buried. This idea of some outsider, some fresh faced punk, some Mr. Deeds going to Washington to clean up the mess is just a myth and exactly what the reall powers that be want us to believe in. They can't accomplish squat and they end up giving our ideals a bad reputation by their failure.

Oh yeah, Swarzenager pulled it off, but only after turning from the "Governator" into a savy political insider. Here's an original thought; why not just elect a savy political insider in the first place. We don't hire plumbers to perform gall bladder surgery. No one would come to our door saying "I'm sick of CPA corruption and as an art history student I'm here to do your taxes ethically."

Barak may be a great guy and his father as a goat herder is definitely endearing, but what pull does he actually have in congress? What ideas can he actually put through rather than just espouse in ghost written semi-biographies? What would four years look like with him at the helm? Talk of great initiatives pulled through or more glamour shots of him on the beach and gossip about his African roots? Criminy people we already had the 70's we don't need them again.

We need an LBJ. Stop laughing. Now. Look LBJ didn't start the Vietnam war he inherited it. Worse, he inherited the mentallity that no US president ever lost a war, even one someone else foolishly let start. I mean you, Ike. No politician in 1964 could have pulled out of Vietnam under the pressure they were under. If you don't believe me, ask yourself why we haven't left Iraq yet. But put Vietnam aside and LBJ was one of the most effective and greatest presidents of the 20th century. He was Roosevelt with more conviction, and better yet more pull. The man singlehandidly pulled African Americans into equal rights like Paul Bunyan pulling up a mighty oak by the roots. He gave reality to Roosevelt's tepid dream of a great society, a safety net for the poor and a real chance for the lowest classes of society to reach the highest classes. He didn't do it with charisma, or a sound bite about two Americas. He didn't do it with an appearance on Oprah, or a smarmy book about Hope, he did it with the only way you can do anything in Washington; with years of experience in Congress, a well established friendship with the powers that be, and a deep knowledge of where the bodies are buried and what arm he could twist that would make any opponants scream uncle. This guy from Texas, rammed a civil rights bill down a Democratic party whose base was in the South. Kennedy feared pushing civil rights. LBJ feared nothing. And when he was done with that he stomped eliminating poverty down the throats of those who most profited from poverty. He did all of this because he was an experienced and savvy politician, not some outsider with a pretty face and a head full of great thoughts and not the slightest idea how to fulfill them, let alone get those who really have power go along with them.

I am sick of pretty boys and media darlings. Just once for one damn presidential term, giving someone who knows what to do, how to do it, and with the political power to crush anyone who stands in his way.

You want real change, go find Al Gore.