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Our Awful President July 16, 2003 |
President George Walker Bush has been an awful president. It’s bad enough that he ordered the US military into action in Afghanistan without properly consulting the national press. Then he had the gall to eschew an apology for American complicity in the “root causes” of terrorist behavior which led to September 11. Next, President Bush ordered the military into an “Axis of Evil” nation, never once considering that Saddam Hussein might not wish to be invaded. At the same time, he chose not to order the military to blow up Kim Jong Il, much to the ire of his close friends in the Democrat Party. His friends were not happy that he tried to blow up Hussein, but Kim apparently needs blowing up. Of course, we all know that President Bush didn’t prove his case in the justification for war with Iraq, depending, of course, on which justification that is demanded of him today. Wait ’til tomorrow and there will be another reason to crow that the Iraq campaign was actually a failure. Hmm. There were fewer holes in the ground in Baghdad before the war. The Iraqi golf course designers’ lobby will have a cow over that one. Then our cowboy of a president flew onto an aircraft carrier without consulting the poster boy for dementia, Sen. Robert Byrd. That’s not a good move for anyone wishing that the old senator would calm down long enough to take his medications. Sen. Byrd nearly popped blood vessels in his neck, which would have popped the taxpayers in the pocket book for a hospital stay. Now our president is facing charges of misleading the public for accurately reporting what the Brits had to say about Iraqi interest- or not- in Niger's uranium. The Brits claim the report was true. No matter, the truth. That’s what he gets for relying on the Brits when he could have just as easily relied on the French. If President Bush continues to successfully battle our enemies, is that fair to Howard Dean, John Edwards, John Kerry, et. al? Richard Gephardt is already on the verge of dropping out over a lack of funds, and Joseph Lieberman is likely not far behind. How democratic is that? President Bush has a duty to make sure that the democratic process stays intact. Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich have a right to run for president, and by goodness President Bush is denying them that right. It’s really awful that Bush has not been sensitive to their rights. What next? Is he going to pander for votes by pushing to protect Americans via a missile defense system? None of this is fair. President Bush, as the leader of our country, has a duty to ensure that the Democrat Party has a viable opportunity to oppose him. Yes, the Democrats still have our struggling economy as an issue, but observant people have figured out that the economy was slow to recover from September 11. The Clinton recession had ended, but the terrorists’ blow was severe enough to stymie economic recovery. President Bush is now talking about providing aid to African nations to help them battle AIDS. Is that ethical to take away one of the Democrats’ issues? That, perhaps, was the most awful thing he could do. It’s just not fair. Pretty soon, people will forget about a lot of today’s issues and focus on economic matters. In order to keep things fair, the Democrats have already pared down President Bush’s plan to assist our economy. Why should he have another advantage in 2004? He already has the advantage on foreign policy matters. President Bush is really awful for successfully leading the war against terrorists. It’s only fair that the Democrats are accusing him of lying for making a true statement. That’ll teach him to be awful.
Hate is a Left |
The people who hate President George Walker Bush just cannot help themselves. The onslaught is relentless. When people pointed out the myriad Bill Clinton illegalities, we were said to hate Clinton. But facts were on our side time after time (even in the instances when federal prosecutors were too timid to pursue certain matters). The Left has never gotten over Florida 2000. The election shaped their psyche much the way the Right was shaped by the Soviet threat during the 1950’s and ‘60’s. The most recent anti-Bush taunt is that the president is supposedly guilty of “the biggest lie” in history. We now “know,” the claim goes, that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Actually, what we have learned is that our intelligence agencies have been so badly neglected over the last twenty-five years that we couldn’t even get into Iraq enough translators to aid those searching for WMD. Rules that date back to the infamous Church and Pike Committees have hindered intelligence gathering and led to a climate within such agencies that has proven fatal. The Americans searching for WMD who recently returned from Iraq were there to blindly search the Iraqi landscape. They did not speak the language, thus they were unable to interview Iraqi scientists; they were unable to read Iraqi documents; they were unable to determine what sites to visit. Days after President Bush made comments about the status of al-Qa’eda, the terrorist group launched an attack in Saudi Arabia. President Bush had said that those who were either captured or dead were no longer a threat to America. Not surprisingly, liberals in the national media took the statement out of context and claimed that he referred to all of al-Qa’eda as no longer being a threat. Truth is no obstacle to the fanatically hateful Left. We have to discount the farthest of the far Left- those who have embedded the hatred of all-things-Republican into their religion of Blame America First. The wails of supposed Bush links to September 11 and of a desired American imperialism by Bush should not be linked to mainstream liberals. They cannot control the content of what their extreme fringe cries out. But the mainstream Left is responsible for the disinformation and hatred that find root in the Florida debacle. Liberals capitalized on the ignorance of their ilk about the electoral guidelines set forth in the Constitution, and the rest is history. Terrorists have been captured in this country; attacks have been prevented here and elsewhere. No matter. The liberal leadership in Washington and their affiliates as far away as the Pacific coast proclaim that the president does not care about the safety of Americans. Whether it’s the economic plan or Homeland security issues, the president is supposedly in favor of only a select few and does not care if everyone else dies/starves/lose their jobs. In their psychologically scarred minds, Bush is the hater, not them. We have traveled down a slippery slope- a slope that began with the ascendancy of the presidency by the immoral man from Arkansas. Liberals see the Bush presidency as their shot at revenge. If it was fair to point out the illegalities and immorality of their man, then it’s fair to invent and twist to accuse the man who represents “the other side.” September 11 only changed so much in America. Singing “God Bless America” from the Capitol Hill steps only subdued hatred for so long. More than two years have elapsed since the election of President Bush, but it seems like only yesterday to many on the Left. Unless the rhetoric and the hatred of the Left subsides soon, perhaps it will be Florida 2000 and not September 11 that will have forever changed our great country. Hatred has become a Left wing value.
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