Be careful of doing a historical reprise on this thread. Too many of its posters already have their minds made up about everything.
But, for the courageous, here is an article from the Slate emagazine dated May 7, 2004. Its message rings more true now than ever before:
slate.com
Here is a snippet from the article:
George W. Bush has governed, for the most part, the way any airhead might, undermining the fiscal condition of the nation, squandering the goodwill of the world after Sept. 11, and allowing huge problems (global warming, entitlement spending, AIDS) to metastasize toward catastrophe through a combination of ideology, incomprehension, and indifference. If Bush isn't exactly the moron he sounds, his synaptic misfirings offer a plausible proxy for the idiocy of his presidency.
Here is another snippet from the same article:
Well into his plans for invading Iraq, Bush still couldn't get down the distinction between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, the key religious divide in a country he was about to occupy.
The entire article is worth a read. |
