Low Expectations
So, rarely does an article get written that galvanizes all my thoughts so well...
an article from alternet.org, an alternative news source not controlled by rupert murdoch (and yes, there is a right wing conspiracy)... you can find the article http://www.alternet.org/election04/20022/...but i'll give u the gist of it.
Bush is not winnign the campaign by beating Kerry, he's winning by doing better than expected...quite a standard to hold the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD TO.
anyhow, here are some points made as to what it's time to hold Bush accountable to.
Standards like truth. Coherence. His actual record in office. An ability to go beyond scripted sound bites. Some connection between the dreamscapes that his PR people paint for him, and the cruel reality on the ground that his policies have helped to create.
Or how about:
For instance, can the man who would be Churchill tell the truth? Can he explain how an attack on a nation with no WMDs that was not involved in the 9/11 attacks somehow boosted the war on terror? Can he tell us how we're going to get out of his quagmire in Iraq? Should he be allowed to get away with reciting some truism about "turning the corner" rather than confronting our net loss of a million jobs, stagnant wages, and growing trade deficit?
Will his promises on the budget deficit be measured against his record in squandering the Clinton surplus? Will his tough-guy talk about terrorists be matched up against his failure to follow through on bin Laden? Will the media ask him if he believes that Armageddon will happen soon, and is that belief influencing his Middle East policy?
Will they ask him how it is that his Administration could be warned in early August that al Qaeda was going to attack inside the United States, and yet more than a month later, still not be able to defend the Pentagon? What could explain such a massive display of incompetence?
And what does it mean that he can find the time to drop in on soldiers and National Guard reserves being sent off to Iraq, but he has never been able to find the time to show respect for our fallen, to show respect for their families, by attending even one funeral of one soldier killed in Iraq? Not one, out of more than one thousand killed.
I am scared at what will happen to our world, when it is run by a group of fundamnetalist christians who are convinced that a majority of the people in their own coutnry are going to hell for not believing the same as them...who are so sure and steadfast in their approach and thoughts that they would never allow a second thought in there, a shred of doubt.
It might be time to move to switzerland...but then again, if the terrorists hate us for their freedom, then we may get blown up there too...
an article from alternet.org, an alternative news source not controlled by rupert murdoch (and yes, there is a right wing conspiracy)... you can find the article http://www.alternet.org/election04/20022/...but i'll give u the gist of it.
Bush is not winnign the campaign by beating Kerry, he's winning by doing better than expected...quite a standard to hold the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD TO.
anyhow, here are some points made as to what it's time to hold Bush accountable to.
Standards like truth. Coherence. His actual record in office. An ability to go beyond scripted sound bites. Some connection between the dreamscapes that his PR people paint for him, and the cruel reality on the ground that his policies have helped to create.
Or how about:
For instance, can the man who would be Churchill tell the truth? Can he explain how an attack on a nation with no WMDs that was not involved in the 9/11 attacks somehow boosted the war on terror? Can he tell us how we're going to get out of his quagmire in Iraq? Should he be allowed to get away with reciting some truism about "turning the corner" rather than confronting our net loss of a million jobs, stagnant wages, and growing trade deficit?
Will his promises on the budget deficit be measured against his record in squandering the Clinton surplus? Will his tough-guy talk about terrorists be matched up against his failure to follow through on bin Laden? Will the media ask him if he believes that Armageddon will happen soon, and is that belief influencing his Middle East policy?
Will they ask him how it is that his Administration could be warned in early August that al Qaeda was going to attack inside the United States, and yet more than a month later, still not be able to defend the Pentagon? What could explain such a massive display of incompetence?
And what does it mean that he can find the time to drop in on soldiers and National Guard reserves being sent off to Iraq, but he has never been able to find the time to show respect for our fallen, to show respect for their families, by attending even one funeral of one soldier killed in Iraq? Not one, out of more than one thousand killed.
I am scared at what will happen to our world, when it is run by a group of fundamnetalist christians who are convinced that a majority of the people in their own coutnry are going to hell for not believing the same as them...who are so sure and steadfast in their approach and thoughts that they would never allow a second thought in there, a shred of doubt.
It might be time to move to switzerland...but then again, if the terrorists hate us for their freedom, then we may get blown up there too...
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