A DANGEROUS TIME POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND INTERNATONALLY FOR THE U. S.
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A TIME IN THREE DECADES WHEN THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY WERE MORE FEARFUL
BUSH WILL LEAVE ON JANUARY, 2009 WITH OUR COUNTRY IN SUCH BAD SHAPE THAT IT WILL TAKE DECADES TO RECOVER
George Herbert Walker Bush became angry in a recent interview because of what his son’s critics were saying about the president. This is not the first time that 41 has expressed his rage in public. GHWB is very sensitive about any denigration of George II.
Following our preemptive invasion of Iraq, the former President was speaking at a leadership conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, when a lady in the audience told Bush, “We do not respect your son. We do not respect what he is doing all over the world.” A large segment of the audience “whooped and whistled in approval” of the lady’s criticism.
Bush 41 was stunned.
According to an article published in The New York Sun, a college student told the former president that in his opinion, “the American wars were aimed at opening markets for American companies and said globalization was contrived for America’s benefit at the expense of the rest of the world.”
Bush, about as fluent in the English language as his academic challenged son replied, “I think that’s weird and it’s nuts…To suggest that everything we do is because we’re hungry for money, I think that’s crazy. I think you need to go back to school.”
“This son is not going to back away. He’s not going to change his view because some poll says this or some poll says that, or some heartfelt comments from the lady who feels deeply in her heart about something. You can’t be president of the United States and conduct yourself if you’re going to cut and run. This is going to work out in Iraq. I understand the anxiety. It’s not easy.”
Bush went on to tell the Abu Dhabi crowd that their jeers and whistles were nothing compared to the reaction he received in Germany in 1980 after he persuaded their country to deploy U. S. nuclear missiles.
At his presidential library in College Station, Texas on November 9, 2007, Bush said in an interview that the denigration of his son was “grossly unfair.” People have forgotten about the brutality of the deposed dictator and asked testily, "Do they want to bring back Saddam Hussein?” He (George W.) has my full, unequivocal support…”
Only a father could look at the world that his son, George W. Bush, has created in the past six years and have his “full and unequivocal” backing.
Every time I read the paper or listen to the evening news, I cringe, I can barely look at Bush without become furious that enough people in this country were so ill-informed in 2000 and 2004 to vote this very average, intellectually challenged man to the most powerful office in the world and, in turn, to indiscriminately use that power to overthrow the leaders of other sovereign nations, allow thousands of our young men and women to die for a cause without meaning. With all that has gone and is going wrong in this country, I sometimes feel that we are getting exactly what we as a nation deserve.
It is not just the war in Iraq even though I am confident that the surge is just a farce, a show that we can quell the intrasectarian conflict in one small area of Iraq with increased boots on the ground and that the qualms will remain after those boots have returned to the U. S.
It is not just the terribly frightening drop in the stock market as more and more banks whose balance sheets are over their heads in bad mortgages report serious drops in their quarterly profits.
It is not just the mammoth increase in foreclosures and millions more yet to come in 2008.
It is not just that the price of oil is skyrocketing toward a previously unheard of, or even undreamed of $100 a barrel.
It is not just the cost of gas at the pumps that could reach $4.00 a gallon and the cost of everything else likewise, will soar through the roof simply because the cost of transporting those goods has become so outlandish.
It is not just that the cost of home heating oil will have thousands of Americans on the verge of bankruptcy and the loss of their homes, not from foreclosure, but from the inability to pay to keep their home warm enough to survive a harsh winter.
It is not just that Israel is increasing the number of citizens it is allowing to settle on the West Bank when time and time again it has promised, even guaranteed that it would relinquish those settlements to the Palestinians as part of their new state.
It is not just that the Bush Administration and the lame brained Congress want to reach out to Iran with one hand while the other is filled with economic sanctions that will further alienate us from the peace table, from any good that diplomacy might engender and drag us further down the road to another meaningless conflict that can only drive us further in debt and cost us the valuable lives of our best and brightest.
It is not just that Pakistan is facing fierce internal unrest, but that they are in possession of approximately 30 nuclear weapons that would fall into the hands of our most dedicated enemy for use against our most dedicated allies.
It is not just the awful signs of global warming that we see everywhere on the face of the globe—the melting ice caps in the Artic Circle, the shrinking mounds of ice and snow in Antarctica that are driving its animal inhabitants to seek life elsewhere, the deadly drought at the Equator, Atlanta’s quickly evaporating water supply, the fires in millions of acres of parched and inflammable forests in California, and the dearth strickened Midwest and Southwest.
It is not just the deficit, it is the size of the deficit and the accompanying devaluation of the dollar that has suddenly made the once almighty buck, the most sought after money in all the world and the currency of choice, into an erstwhile coinage when compared with the increased value of Canada’s Dollar and Europe’s once struggling Euro into the most sought after currency on earth.
It is not just that home insurance is increasing, it is that it is increasing to the point that many people can no longer afford to insure their homes, the sum and substance of their life savings from the destruction that fire, flood, hurricanes, tornados, and winds can bring in the wink of an eye.
It is not that we can not build enough houses or do not have enough mortgage money to finance the houses we are building, it is that people are too scared to go out on a thirty year limb and commit themselves even to their life’s dream because of questions about the economy, their jobs, potential layoffs and funds for housing in the face of massive increases of health care, pharmaceutical drugs, retirement and long term care in retirement.
It is not that our bridges are rusting away, our highways are a nightmare to drive on, our water is polluted to the point of being dangerous to our health, our infrastructure is collapsing all around us, it is that nobody is paying any attention, or at least too few people are paying too little attention to these urgent needs to do something about it now.
It has almost coming to the point where the evening news is something to be avoided and the morning paper has become a dreadful reminder of a world gone wrong on the watch of George W. Bush and the 30% of the American people who support him. May God save our dismal lives and our nation from the total lack of leadership provided by Bush? And the amoral leadership of Cheney; and yes, even the newly elected Democratic Congress that promised more than it could deliver.
The Democratic Congress got so caught up that the voters failed to realize that they needed a 2/3 vote in each House in order to override a presidential veto. It really isn’t their fault. If we were informed citizen, we would have learned in the sixth grade that it takes 2/3 of the membership in both the House and the Senate to squash the presidential veto.
The Democrats did not realize the number of cowards in the Republican Party who refuse to defy their president
Not only to override, the Democrats thought there was so much anger about the war that they could easily reach the 60 votes in the Senate to even bring a piece of legislation to the floor for a debate and a vote.
Because the Democrats have been unable to muster these numbers plainly written into the rules of the Senate, that every effort to vote to modify funding for the war, has fallen short.
There are also several cowards in the Democratic side of the Senate who are afraid that their re-election to the Senate is more important to the future of the country than peace in the Iraq.
This is certainly the classic example of a dysfunctional government and it is the source of the condemnation by the voters that gives the Congress an overall approval rating somewhere in the teens. Bush’s approval rating lingers around 30%. If it were not for the promise of the forthcoming elections in November, 2008, the seeds of revolution would surely be planted.
So, we have a nation that hates its congresspersons, and hates its president and vice president and sees that neither are doing the work that the people sent them to accomplish for them
We the people must become more vigorous in supporting the persons we wish to see heading our government and we must become more analytical in reviewing what the candidates stand for and how they will govern once elected.
There is too much at stake. This is not just another election. 2008 is one of the most important elections in this decade if the people are to take our government back; if we are to grab our power away from the special interests that have had control for far too many years.
That is one thing I like about Obama; he is his own man. We must never forget that Washington, Jefferson, Adams had no experience before they served in this vaunted office. They were all beginners because no one had been president of a state chosen of the people, by the people and for the people ever before in the history of the world. And they did not do such a bad job.
2:16:51 PM 
|
