While Sunday was glorious (despite the rain), Saturday morning sucked (despite the sun) largely because my mind kept going back to NPR’s man-on-the-street interviews in Altoona PA regarding the upcoming elections.
Like the rest of the country, they hate the war and Bush’s policies, but rather than, you know, voting for a candidate who speaks to their concerns, they’re going to vote for McCain and hope he changes his positions on the war, tax cuts, Iran…
Because it doesn’t matter how many Americans get killed (and certainly not how many Iraqis have died) over the course of an American president’s administration; what really matters is whether the candidate will hug the baby Jesus and give Planned Parenthood the finger on an issue that the President has no direct control over whatsoever.
I’d say they deserve what they’re going to get – but what about the rest of us who are actually sane?
Bush the Manchurian candidate has deliberately laid the country low.
Bush delivered a one two punch. First he sold out our energy
independence to Saudi Arabia. Second he got us in to a protracted
and costly and needless war which necessitated our selling debt
to China. On top of all tha Bush created the largest entitlement
program in history. He has been pissing away our money, our
freedoms and our sovereignty. Even though we were attacked
on Sept 11th by Saudis, Osama is Saudi, and the homicide bombers
in Iraq are Saudis, Bush’s only response is to get on his
knees and beg the Saudi princes to have mercy. And now that
China is brutalizing Tibet, Bush who was so quick to
criticize a worthless dictator in Iraq and begin a war
over things such has Hussein’s civil right record, is
scared crapless to say “boo” to China. Why? Well the
fall of Bear Stearn nearly toppled the economy. If we threatened
to boycott the Olympics over Tibet, China could threaten to
call in all their markers on our debt. There would
literally be a run on the bank as other nations followed the
Chinese lead, and we would have the great depression. In
my personal opinion Bush and Cheney can assert Mission
Accomplished in two areas. One: their oil and corporate
buddies have record profits. Two: the foreign masters
who have purchased Bush and Cheney’s souls have the US on the brink
of ruin. Heckuva job W. In my opinion.