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

To: gao seng who wrote (263487)	6/12/2002 9:16:15 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

‘I’m a Loving Guy’ By Saul Pegala “I’m a loving guy,” President Bush choked through tears while standing inside the Oval Office just days after 9/11. “I think of the children…” he claimed, acting as though he was overcome with emotion. There was a time when those of my political ilk thought that Dubya was a dumbass, a daddy’s boy who inherited the presidency by virtue of his father’s (and Uncle Ronnie’s) Supreme Court nominees. No more. As we now know, George W. Bush is not a loving guy, but a cold, calculating, intensely intelligent political animal who will say and do anything to preserve his power and further his agenda. What is the Bush agenda? Oil and blood—and not necessarily in that order. As we now know, thanks to unusual leaks from the FBI or CIA, George Bush knew al Qaeda was about to attack but did nothing, other than spend the month of August chopping wood at the Crawdad ranch and dreaming of his 90% approval rating. The Bushies are desperate — desperate to stop an investigation into the president’s deliberate negligence that resulted in the death of thousands of innocent Americans. And as so often happens when one is desperate, they say really stupid things. Condoleeza Rice even went on national television to say that when determining the threat of hijacking it all depends on what the definition of hijacking is, and that when faced with blatant warnings about imminent hijackings, the president had to decide whether to risk shutting the whole country down on a “vague” threat. George W. Bush craves power more than he respects democracy. ‘I’m a loving guy’ is just a slogan to him. This president’s ‘loving guy’ routine is the most blatant hypocrisy since another Bush claimed not to be a wimp then upchucked all over the prime minister of Japan (Bill Clinton never spewed a bodily fluid on someone unless it was consensual). The man whose post 9/11 slogan was ‘I’m a loving guy,’ now says he knew about terrorist threats and decided to spend a month chopping wood instead of protecting his nation (at least when Bill Clinton played with his wood he did so in the Oval Office while simultaneously receiving security briefings over the telephone). And the man who claimed to ‘think of the children’ is now trying to hoodwink his own children, the 280 million Americans who call him dad. We Democrats have convinced the American people to look to the president as a father figure, one who is there to hold our hand through every step of life. In Bill Clinton, Americans had as fine a daddy as any kid could have, but now we are stuck with some negligent stepfather who chops wood in the back yard while a burglar walks through the unlocked front door, shoots the kids, steals the television, and drags the Secretary of State behind a pick-up truck. But this revelation does allow us to make some important judgments about George W. Bush: he lies more than any other president in American history. Why would Bush lie about being a loving guy? For the same reason he lied about his inability to chew pretzels. Because that’s what he does. Yes, Bill Clinton lied one time during his presidency when he denied having an affair, but no one believed him anyway, and a lie isn’t really a lie when everyone knows you’re lying. The problem with Bush is people trust him, so it’s worse when he lies. But when it came to national security or terrorism, Bill Clinton never lied. Bill Clinton promised that those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing would be hunted down and punished. He promised that those responsible for the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia would be hunted down and punished. After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa , he promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. And he promised to hunt down those responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole. He meant every word. If you look at what the man promised to do and what he accomplished, I’d stack him up against anybody, he was the most successful president since Grant, maybe even Jimmy Carter. And if Bill Clinton were still president on 9/11, he would have promised to hunt down those responsible for that vicious attack, too. That’s what a real leader would do. And Bush? He needlessly sheds the blood of innocent Afghan civilians*, clearing the way for his beloved oil pipeline that he plans to build with his new friend in Christ, Vladimir Putin. Does this sound like the actions of a loving guy? You see, the Bush agenda is oil and blood…and not necessarily in that order. bsnn.net