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

To: MSI who wrote (342814)	1/13/2003 11:51:28 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

MSI, Re: Chomsky's line is that this can happen quite suddenly For the media, the tipping pit for their shift is smelling blood in the water. As soon as Bush displays weakness they'll attack. The shocking thing to me is how little the evil association of Bush with Enron mattered to the bulk of the public. There was enough press coverage to give intelligent people a clue as to the vile nature of Bush's regime, but the public was largely still mesmerized by the horse apples about "leadership" in the war on terror. The public hasn't quite come to accept that most of the terror and fear they feel is manufactured by the Bushies for selfish ends. But every day the light comes on for more and more Americans. PBS's Washington Week host Gwen Ifill is currently on C-SPAN2 discoursing about the nature of leadership. She just said, "Politicians can lead (the people) out of the wilderness of their own uncertainties." This is one of the best explanations for the astonishing popularity of a known criminal like Bush. The public is uncertain, befuddled, in fear and in need of a leader to follow. This is the curse of a herd species. And Bush is playing this weakness like a maestro. Bush has to play his card right from here. He's on thin ice with most of the world seeing through his thin tissue of lies about our engagement with Iraq. The economic malaise here at home is angering more and more people as they see the remarkably cynical way that Bush is pulling the rug out from the middle class and rewarding his bribers. I'm sensing that Bush is vulnerable at this point. I'll do my part to push him out of his yacht and into the chummed waters. He deserves nothing less.