Letters to the Editor
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What about 9/11?
Is it ok to point out that it took him 3 days to get to NY after 9/11? I don't have a security detail, and I and all of my colleagues made it back in to work in 2 days.
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In total agreement
I certainly do agree with Joan Walsh's take on Bush's hasty visit to Virginia Tech. But wouldn't any other President surely have done the same thing, if not even quicker. It reminds me of how Guiliani was touted as a hero for his handling of the 9/11 attacks during his governorship of NYC (I was living in New York at the time). Yes, he did some mighty good and appropriate things, but who in his position would not have? Horrible, horrible tragedy in Virginia, no doubt about it. But the deaths and loss of homes during the Katrina catastrope were monumental in comparison. Let's look at things in their proper perspective. As far as I'm concerned, yes, we can go back to criticizing this President big time, the scoundrel.
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I'm Just Waiting
For the appropriate moment in 2009. I will then declare.....
George Bush and his daughters have 48 hours to leave D.C.
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The war...
isn't unjust or unwarrented Joan. Managed horribly, yes.
I'm not sure the level of devastation was the same in VA as it was in LA but I think it might have been a little easier to get to VA Tech.
You're article title explains everything though. It's not about what's happening, it's about you wanting to criticize Bush at any and all oportunities. Regardless of the facts.
We both know that for you it's always ok to criticize Bush. Deaths in VA and Iraq are really just sideline issues in your world.
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Meanwhile, There Is Salon
Joan:
Since yours is the only piece about the Virg Tech killings, I'm going to respond knowing it's "on the tape."
I predict when they get to the killer's family, they won't have noticed anything strange about their son. Their residence will be nice and neat. They more than likely will be church goers. If there is a man in the home, he won't have much to say.
They may speak about how "normal" they apppear to be, and that is what the neighbors will say, with one or two exceptions because their dog disappeared and they suspected him. The parents sought nothing more from or for him than achieving the "American dream," (whatever that is at this point.)
Who knew what he would turn into given that they have the same ambitions as everybody else? In the end, it will be a mystery to them--and they won't be lying--as long as they can get out of the spotlight as soon as possible.
All the people who knew the boy and looked the other way at his "eccentricities," won't have thought they were so serious. The lights that should have been flashing didn't flash. The one hero, the teacher who sent his writing to the authorities, will be guilt stricken they didn't do more--because at least they had the values that allowed them to see the problem in the first place.
The truth is that it takes generations to breed a child this deranged. When it comes down to the actual specifics--to what makes a kid capable of such an act--nobody wants to know. It cuts too close to the bone--better to push it back under the rug where it belongs.
The focus will be on the political and "news," issues, or the moralists will take over--like the old boys who wonder why the young boys weren't "man enough," to attack him. The pattern has become very repetitive. The real answers are in those books Garrison Keiller talks about that so few read--or care even exist.
Yeah, go ahead, criticise the president again, but don't think it's the cause--he's just the result. Meanwhile, there is Salon--where at least we can talk about it.
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Methinks anonymous protests too much
I'm calling BS. I can't seriously believe that someone could be more offended at legitimate criticisms of the president, regardless of the timing after a national tragedy, than his shameless rush to exploit the photo opportunity.
If he were sincere his first public statement on the subject would have been an expression of grief and sympathy, but it wasn't. The very first statement from his administration on the matter you may recall, was to affirm that his position on gun ownership was unchanged.
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George W.'s selective sympathy
W is a hypocrite. He has no real feelings of compassion so he has to rustle up the ones he displays occasionally from his limited acting ability. He learned well at his mommy's knee. Remember how she said the victims of Katrina were lucky!
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Crocodile tears
I was very happy to see Tim's post Tuesday. It was so apropos. And as far as Bush's presence at Virginia Tech, I couldn't help feeling that his speeches were just a bunch of posturing and totally fake. He doesn't care. If he did, he'd listen to the people of this country and get our troops out of Iraq and actually practice some diplomacy around the world instead of trying to throw the weight of the US around like a schoolyard bully.
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of course he went to Virginia
It's a red state.
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Impeachment Has Been Earned
George W. Bush actions as president, his lies, his cronynism, his active campaigns to circumvent, disregard, or nullify provisions of the United States Constitution and federal law, have made him by far the most qualified White House occupant in history for the impeachment process. Impeachment must ALWAYS be on the table, as it is one of the few ways in which the representatives of the American People, the Congress, can check abuses to the awesome power of the federal Executive Branch. Now the Congressional investigative process needs to kick into high gear to find out how the resources of the Peoples' government have been exploited and misused for the enrichment and empowerment of the few. Mr. Bush needs to know that his days of getting his way through whining and blustering are over and that his every action is going to be critically scrutinized by those empowered to remove him from office.
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You forgot something Joan
Im surprised at this comment of yours. Dont you know that for Republicans, poor people are sub humans, especially if they are minority or disabled? When have we seen any Republican, or for that matter even Democrats (especially ones who authorized this war) say a few moments of grace for Iraqis are being blown to smithereens? Or those folks who lost their lives as a result of Katrina....