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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (239673)	3/19/2002 1:37:08 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm nonplussed by Davis's words. If indeed they are his own. They are completely benighted. But not sinister and disingenuous like those of Bill Simon. This nation faces a huge crisis. No. I'm not talking about the one about how we're about to Kevorkian too many grey hairs. I'm talking about the one that states boldly we are in deep denial about our energy profligacy. When we have to kid ourselves about our involvement in Afghanistan so we can reach out an touch the CH4 in Turkmenistan, we may well have gone too far as an empire. It's not really sustainable. This convenient drill-a-straw dream of Harken and Halliburton. Maybe we need more vision. Maybe we need new leadership. But it isn't obvious to the masses. Who we all know, both the manipulators in the Bushes and the wonks in my wickiup would love to convince of our merits. Qouting from the SOSD article: kept the lights on. And this sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat. People just roundly criticize me, but this was a war and I'm delighted that people are now seeing the duplicity and the manipulation Enron practiced Anyone who wasn't born yesterday understands that George II was involved in this conspiracy. And he's deeply disappointed that his terror scheme didn't work out quite the way he'd planned it. Remember, the little Shrub isn't anything new on this planet. H.L. Mencken knew this little pissant very well: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Tout alors, Ramon