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

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (245967)	4/7/2002 11:26:31 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

Not a very well written hit piece. That Bush was unpopularly elected, with 150 million voters Not voting for him, and only 46 million for, was also true for Gore, which Moore stated in his Commonwealth event that I heard. He doesn't like Gore, either, contrary to this author's implication. I would imagine he said so, and if so, the author omitted it. The author certainly observes micro details of dress, in the "social commentary" mode, I suppose. But the purpose of the article is purely political, I am more inclined to imagine. He calls the idea of polled people being afraid to denounce the president "bizarre", but depending on how the question is asked, the need of citizens to rally around their government in time of war could well induce a "yes" to the question of how well is Bush doing. I don't see that as bizarre at all. The idea of Justice Department goons coming after people who answer questions wrong isn't so far fetched as it sounds, anymore, either, depending on how you perceive the Bush and Ashcroft fiat rulings on tribunals, secret meetings and hidden pres papers. Investigations into links with Enron isn't exactly "regurgitating old gristle", nor have the Democrats "long since given up", as much wishful thinking as that may be. Investigations into Bush connections with bin Laden and Bush Inc. profiteering going back over a decade demands investigation, and Washington would be screaming for same if Clinton or Gore were pres. The Texas ties to the Taliban through oil companies is documented, and they even visited Texas a while back. The $43 million dollar payment from the Bush Administration to the Taliban is variously reported also, and the only question is its interpretation. Moore has a fine sense of the bizarre, in the part about OBL running around caves with a kidney dialysis machine. That is bizarre. The story of Harper Collins attempt to squash his book is a pretty good one. The author of this hit piece doesn't dispute that, just puts quote marks around claims to try to defuse the idea that they would try to ban (or as the author says, "ban") it. He tries to say Moore was talking about Marx and Engels as heroes who led to 100 million deaths. What I heard was the notion that these writers caused a major change from the tsars, and in fact it was the sociopaths like Stalin that create police states and purges, nothing like the (still wrong) writings of the philosophers. It's a devil's-advocate piece, which is fine, if he'd stick to what Moore really said and meant, and not what he'd like him to have meant.