FW: Voters' Remorse on Bush

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" Mark Hull-Richter " <mhull

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:51:26 -0700 (PDT)

FW: Voters' Remorse on Bush

 

 

 

Here is what happens when people of conscience who have the power of

the press available to them finally spit back at dictators.

 

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Voters' Remorse on Bush

by New York Times - Bob Herbert, Sept. 22, 2005

 

Maybe, just maybe, the public is beginning to see through the toxic fog

of fantasy, propaganda, and deliberate misrepresentation

that has been such a hallmark of the George W. Bush Administration,

which is in danger of being judged by history as one of the WORST

of all time!

 

Mr. Bush's approval ratings have tanked as increasing numbers of

Americans worry that their president, who seems to like nothing better

than running-off to his ranch to clear brush and ride his bike, may not

be up to the job.

 

The most recent New York Times/CBS News Poll strongly indicated that

the public, tired of the " War-without-End " in Iraq

and dismayed by the Federal response to the catastrophe in New Orleans,

" has growing doubts about [the president's] capacity

to deal with pressing problems. "

 

A USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll found for the first time that a majority of

Americans do not see Mr. Bush as a

'strong and decisive leader'.

 

In an article in USA Today, Carroll Doherty of the non-partisan Pew

Research Center said of Mr. Bush:

" He's lost ground among independents. He seems to be starting to lose

ground among his own party. And he lost the Democrats

a long-g time ago. "

 

Reality is caving-in on a president who was held aloft for so long by

the public- relations legerdemain of Karl Rove

and the buoyant patriotism that followed the Sept. 11th attacks.

 

The Bush people were never big on reality, so sooner or later they were

bound to be blindsided by it. Remember, there was already

a war going on when Hurricane Katrina came to call. I've always

believed that war is a serious matter. But, the president

was on vacation. Dick Cheney was on vacation. And Condi Rice was here

in New York taking in the sights

and shopping for shoes [?!]

 

That Americans were fighting and dying on foreign soil was not enough

to demand their full attention. They were busy having 'fun'.

So it's no wonder it took a good long while before they noticed that a

whole section of America had been wiped-out

in a calamity of biblical proportions.

 

What Americans are finally catching onto is the utter incompetence of

this crowd. And if we didn't know before, we're learning now,

in the harshest possible ways, that incompetence has bitter

consequences.

 

The body count of Americans killed in Iraq has now passed 1,900, with

many more deaths to come. But there's STILL

no strategy, no plan. The White House hasn't the slightest clue about

what to do. So the dying WILL continue.

 

Mr. Bush's " Top Gun " moment aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln

was two and a half years ago! It was ANOTHER example

of Mr. Bush in " Fantasyland " .

 

The war was a botch from the beginning. Mr. Bush never sent enough

troops to get the job done, and he never provided

enough armor to protect the troops that he did send. Thin-skinned, Mr.

Bush got rid of ANYONE who had the temerity

to suggest Mr. Bush might be wrong about some of the decisions he was

making.

 

Here at home, even loyal Republicans are beginning to bail-out on Mr.

Bush's fiendish willingness to shove the monumental costs

of the Federal government's operations - including: his war, his

tax-cuts, and his promised reconstruction of the Gulf Coast

onto the unsuspecting backs of generations still to come.

 

There is a general sense now that things are falling apart. Our

nation's economy was already faltering BEFORE Hurricane Katrina hit.

Gasoline prices are starting to undermine the standard-of-living of

some Americans, and a full-blown home-heating-oil crisis

could erupt this winter. This Administration's AWFUL response to the

agony of the Gulf Coast has left most Americans

believing that we are not prepared to cope with a large terrorist

attack.

 

And Osama bin Laden is STILL at large!

 

This is what happens when voters choose a president because he seems

like someone who'd be fun at a barbecue or a ballgame.

You'd never use that criterion when choosing a surgeon, or a pilot to

fly your family across the country.

 

Mr. Bush will be at the helm of the ship of state for three (3) more

very long years, so we have no choice but to hang-on.

But the next time around, voters need to keep in mind, is a more

immediate issue, and that's " competence " !

 

 

Mark Hull-Richter, U.S. Citizen & Patriot

U.S.A. - From democracy to kakistocracy in one fell coup.

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