Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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Well, Gee, That's Just Great!
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have a crack-pot for a President? Is that what you are telling us? Oh, hell.
As for the Rove nickname "Pigpen:" The Bush family may have treated him like Staff and with disdain but it didn't stop them from embracing his brand of trash-for-campaign-strategy tactics. Like most elites in politics today, they can hold their noses when it suits them!
Since Bush wants to focus on how history will treat him: Well tell him this:
When Bush dies, they will write: George W. Bush was the 43rd President who came into the Office under controversial conditions; i.e.,was selected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 by a majority of Justices who were comprised of members of his own party, and was thought to have deliberately fabricated false election results in a significant state where his brother was Governor.
Bush was the son of the 41st President, George H. W. Bush. Other controvesies followed Bush his entire life: Insider trading deals where he secretly profited; a military commission that was suspected of being given because of his father's connections; a military record that cannot be verified; failed business ventures that always seem to have had the financial support of his father's friends; and the most unpopular invasion of Iraq where Bush fabricated intelligence and manipulated public opinion in order to unnecessarily invade another country. That invasion also produced sufficient evidence of fraud, corruption, and kick-backs over corporate contracts including a controversial contract to Bush's Vice President's former company, approved by the Vice President himself while he was still receiving financial compensation from the company.
Bush also came under fire for violating the Rules of the Geneva Conventions, condoning the torture of prisoners of war, and violating various U.S. Constitutional Rights in the name of national security. It was on his watch that Islamic radical terrorists attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Bush was probably best remembered as the President who failed to find Usama Bin Laden and bring him to justice for the deaths of thousands of Americans on September 11th, 2001, and other acts of terrorism against the United States, it's citizens, and it's interests.
Bush destroyed the nation's treasury and future over his follies in Iraq. Recent polls show him as the President with the lowest approval rating ever received, and 20 years afterwards, the President that Americans still do not like, trust, or respect. Bush, who ironically liked to think of himself as a very likable person, surpassed Richard Nixon as the most unlikable President in modern history.
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Ugh! Hurry Up, January 2009
[Read the article: "I'm the C student, and just look at who's the president"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Nuf said.
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What's The Problem, Bill...
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you self-righteous ass?
I breat-fed in private and public over 30 years ago when obviously no one cared one way or the other. I was discreet and the majority of the time no one was the wiser.
The Applebee's that I went to once had lousy food anyway, so why bother? As for Hooters? Well, sure, that's what breasts are for these days: To flow out of your blouse/shirt even if you are a AAA cup, jacked way up with the latest $50 padded bra from Victoria's Secret that falls apart after 4 washings, and to make sure men look at them.
So, what's your problem, Bill? Don't like it? Stay home. You don't have the market cornered on "what-Bill-doesn't-like-about-society-must-go."
Real simple stuff: Either don't look - or take a good look. Either way probably works for any of us out here.
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IS ANYONE IN CHARGE OF THIS MESS?
[Read the article: The dark truth about Blackwater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Contrary to the article's mentioning that the public is not aware of these private contractors: Oh hell yes we are! The problem seems to be that Congress and the White House don't seem to know what is going on under their noses!
Beaucoup White House officials, Secretary of State officials, Department of Defense officials, and just about every member of Congress have been to Iraq - some more than a few times! Why don't THEY know what is going on?
And what about the military that has been serving all this time, especially those back for more than one tour? Where's their loyality when it comes to blowing the whistle on these over-priced, corrupt, and deadly profiteers? Funny, but I can't recall one story about what they have witnessed with Blackwater and other contractors.
The problem with Iraq is that this has not been about winning hearts and minds, or about democracy, or WMD, or 9/11, or oppressive Dictators, or any other feel-good sounding platitude. It's been about greed from the get-go. Time to turn off the spigot that is the U.S. taxpayers wallets and get out of this mess NOW.
I'll be voting for President for the person who has the backbone to get us out without all the usual "conditional" double-speak, hand-wringing, or otherwise pants-wetting back-peddling.