@DecencyAdvocate,
Brent;4991 wrote:lol man... if all I did was listen to you I'd never think the Democrats did anything wrong.
Halo Brent, thanks for your reply. The point is not that the Democrats have done nothing wrong. Sure they have at different points. However, it's now the Republicans again who've been controlling the executive, legislative, and increasingly, the judicial branch. They have had the power for some years now. The wheel turns, the cycle progresses. It's their turn to take the heat for what they have done, and failed to do.
The old truisms are true. "What goes around comes around." It's always a bitter pill to swallow when any of us doesn't get what we want. By now Bush and his people have been caught in SO many lies, it's a wonder they haven't been drummed out of office already. Bush comparatively has been getting off lucky. How do you think he would handle the kind of beating Tony Blair takes in Britain's Parliamentary system? Clinton may have been an excessively self-absorbed individual. Bush whines and hisses. How do you think HE would handle getting impeached? Back inj 2000, reporters said that Governor Bush wasn't available for comment during the (aborted) Florida recount because he was "tired." Basically, he's a spoiled rich boy who has abused his privilege, beyond having had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He's passionate only in defending the interests of the rich monied class which in a moment of rare frankness, he addressed as "my base."
It's excruciating when he opens his mouth. Asked how he feels about the pitting of Karzai and Musharraf against each other, he says, "It'll be interesting to watch their body language, to watch how tense they might get...."
What?! Bush is now the Great Psychologist and Expert on Body Language? It reminds me of that chilling scene in "The Onion Field" where a psychopathic James Woods tells a young lad who approaches his cell door, "Come on in son, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a letter to my family...."
Do you put "finishing touches" on a letter to -- your family?
Is THAT all Bush can think of to say? The man wanted the jjob, but when asked to act with some dignity and gravitas in a difficult international moment, he turns glib, treats it like a joke, and says something stupid in an obvious attempt to divert attention away from his own ignorance. Asked to comment on a crucial international confrontation as the President of the U.S., he talks about -- "body language?!" Is he trying another piece of subliminal code -- "Trust me, because, ahah, I understand human psychology, and ahem, the human body." Code: "Watch MY moves!" It's very natcissistic, like so many people in his cabal. Not to mention, disrespectful, of two other heads-of-state whom he himself is supposed to support. Who's King George to say that he's going to observe the "body language" of two other state officials as if they were lab rats? It's beyond narcissistic. It's pointless.
The man is an embarrassment. Speaking of psychology, I've lost count of how many psychologists have noted that he sounds just like a dry drunk whenever he opens his mouth. As Jack Germond among others said in his book, Fat Man Fed Up, Bush is obviously out of his depth.
Democrats and Republicans? We've all heard enough to fill a library about Bill Clinton's sexual "addictions." Yet how much do you hear about Bush's history of alcohol and cocaine use - and its effects on a person's subsequent thinking and brain activity? Nada. What happened to all that stuff about Bush's National Guard records that cost Dan Rather HIS job? It disappeared, like everything else that caused this guy any embarrassment. And we keep hearing about the "liberal press?" If the press were half as liberal as the right-wing tinheads say it is, Bush would be as ridiculed in this country as he is in the rest of the world,.as the world's laughing stock. But people aren't exactly laughing.-- he has his finger on the big button. That's why Bush is not funny. I'm all for a good healthy laugh. But Politics and Government are not a joke.
Katrina: Bush struts around and says, "Brownie, here, he's doin' a heckuva job." I suspect he's not really interested in doing what it takes to do his job. What really turns him on is the satisfaction of just beating his opponent in an election, and in cajoling, charming, and duping enough people to buy his carefully constructed images to cast their vote for him.
Yet Bush gets away with a lot. Trouble is, as an Australian contact I know said, "When I came to the U.S., I was shocked at how little in the way of world news Americans actually get in thieir own country."
"Freedom" and "Free Press" are relative terms. There is a whole lot about these people that is kept under wraps. You know it as well as I.
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And let's not forget the famous 2003 pronouncement "Mission Accomplished." That and its many correlative Bush falsehoods dwarf Clinton's "I never had sexual relations with that woman." A big reason why Starr and the Republicans were able to get so much mileage out of it, is that the nation is simultaneously confused, hypocritical, and fascinated with sex. Strange, how Republicans always manage to look so sacrosanct and a-sexual.
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