Letters to the Editor
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Dear Sweet God
There are almost three years left of this. The question is not, can we outlast the man, it is, will he outlast the Republic? I've just watched the Katrina tapes of the closed-circuit conference before the storm. Again and again, the same pattern: we couldn't have known, but they did know. This failure of a man has depended on flattery his entire life.
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If he hadn't been so destructive to world stability,
I could feel sorry for him.
The more I hear and read, the more I see him as not arrogant, but completely lost. He is a man who has acquired responsibility that is well over his intellectual capacity. I don't think he will ever understand the arguments against him and his policies.
His legacy is taking shape as the president who didn't care because he never got it in the first place. The pros and cons and arguments are over his head.
What is disheartening is that one in three Americans still support him!
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
And he is a sad, sad, little man. I said so in 2000; and it is tragic that to some, it is only evident today. In the meantime, the death toll keeps rising...
Time for an end to the Parade of Jokers. "Do you hear laughter, Pharoah?"
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Long Live the Sock Puppet
How discouraging this is! How far the Republican Party has fallen -- once the party of the environment, the party that warned us of the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
Speaking as a Republican-in-exile, I see no fresh air for this nation until we rid ourselves of both the Bush-Cheney cabal and the troublesome clowns of ideolatry like Santorum -- and everyone who helped to bring them into office and propped them up there while they raped and pillaged our nation.
I am absolutely sick at heart, and it gets worse every day.
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Even Caligula couldn't destroy Rome alone...
George is no Einstein, admittedly, but the problems of the country go deeper than one man, or two, or even fifty. The American lack of self-questioning, the insular American moral security of the wealthy college educated, both left and right, and the dumb-downed but profitable privitization of the media and culture are all leading us into a downward spiral of cultural decay. The solution isn't even self-suffiency as I tried gardening last year and was almost bankrupted by the waterbill, (my potatoes cost more than oil). I really can't see a future for the average person in this country.
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Who does the naked Emperor rule over?
Some may have heaped invective upon the President-elect of 2000 (and later of 2004), but I kept getting stuck on one short phrase, over and over: "The people get the government they deserve."
Old Ben was right, but I don't know whether he would be able to explain to us now what exactly we did to deserve this. Become complacent, perhaps? Become so comfortable in our belief that we're Numero Uno just because we're Americans and forgot all about the values that brought us here (and no, I don't mean the "values" that say abortion is an abomination and blacks should be held as second-class citizens, I mean values such as "we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard"). Perhaps we've become so obsessed with image rather than substance that we ended up voting for the likeable guy rather than for a competent guy. Perhaps, on our little Olympus, we completely forgot that the rest of the world out there doesn't necessarily think like us, even though they've been kissing up to us (and our nuclear arsenal) for the last half-century.
As the Pres would say, make no mistake about it: this was our fault. Yes, OUR, including those of us who voted against him, and yes, including those of us who berate him now. Were we marching on Washington when he lied to us and attacked Iraq? Some of us were "protesting" in Berkeley or San Francisco. 50% of this nation is 150,000,000 people. That's 150 million-man marches! We didn't get even one.
No, I shouldn't really talk: I didn't even join the Berkeley party. Too busy with work, you know. And that's how we lost our nation. The three years that follow may be a fitting punishment to the failed Empire.
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A glib liar, an amoral imp, but a fool? not hardly
How dare anyone portray Bush as merely a pathetic fool. The man was told clearly of the dangers of Katrina. Just a few days later he said on national TV that nobody had any notion of what would happen. That was a pure self-serving intentional and malicious lie. Even a child could tell as much.
Bush is not the victim of flattery and coddling. He is flattered and coddled because he demands it. He is a glib liar, unconcerned with consequences, seeking his own adulation in place of wise counsel, and steering a course of utter ruin.
Here's a thought: If we must resort to empire we ought to restore the tradition of beheading the evil emperors.
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The emperors; Hitler and Bush
Recall how the please of the German generals fell on deaf ears once Stalingrad had turned into a disaster. The 6th Army could have escaped but for the delisions of their leader and his cabal of lapdogs. The same was true at the end of the war, when Hitler forbade escape by any of his staff and ordered the destruction of Germany in the wake of defeat. From how this clown took power, to how he monopolized power in the wake of great crisis, to how he now faces his dreams turning to dust...the parallels are way too scary.
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A Deluded King
Lately I have been intrigued by the body count...According to September 11 Victims.com 2,996 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks. As of today at antiwar.com the total death count for American soldiers was 2,296. This does not include collateral deaths of sub contractors, journalists or other tourists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Soon GWB will be guilty of 'killing' as many Americans as OBL. Just a thought I wanted to share.
Peace
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Civil liberties
I had not previously been aware of Bush's self-comparisons to Lincoln. That might explain his zeal to strip us of our civil liberties. He's got a ways to go to match Lincoln; I hope he doesn't see it as a contest.
While it wasn't precisely news, the first paragraph (on Bush's intransigence) warmed my heart. Keep digging that hole, W! Don't let the Republican party crawl out while you're not looking!