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

To: SeachRE who wrote (416841)	6/19/2003 8:48:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Silly name-calling, there you go again. If you want to debate, get serious and specific. Study policy. Study character. Kerry vs. Bush. Looks like the fight in 2004. first of all, Kerry is not at all boring. Not if you're interested in issues and the future of our country and world. He's no Al Sharpton rabble-rouser but he's become a brilliant, entertaining and engaging speaker. He is a serious man but spices the serious stuff with jokes. And the content of what he's saying is right on target, thought-provoking and gripping. You'll find he has a lot to say, is thoroughly knowledgeable, has done his homework, is very accurate and thinks out his positions and statements. He's also writes most of his speeches himself, has a strong message and a clear mission statement, that is to bring honesty, fairness, real security, more bi-partisan, forward-thinking vision and balance back to the White House. GW and Cheney I find canny but harsh, insincere and even deceitful. I try to look for what they are going to do for us. Problem is they never really tell us, except two or three things they stick with over and over like tax cuts, bragging about how tough they are and threatening smaller countries if they don't comply. They also lie, my friend. They deliberately lie because they think they can get away with it and that really bothers me. They use slogans, false advertising methods and sell us bills of goods they don't really plan to deliver. They cite false sources, false evidence and mislead listeners in the most important of issues. Like telling us their tax cuts are for everyone when they're skewed to the top 1% in the country. Like telling us Iraq was an imminent threat and as dangerous as Hitler. Real BS. Bush uses lots of feel-good fuzzy patriotic lines which are camouflaging his real agenda and mislead us into thinking they intend to do the exact OPPOSITE of what they are really doing. And they never tell us about the fine print which is full of controversial special interest pork and costly giveaways. Their true agenda can be seen when they are not trying to do political damage control, but are serving their base. That is the far right, for-the-rich-and-industry neocon vision of the world where they start a lot of things but don't put in the hard work of finishing them. They just let private industry run amok, only industries which contribute heavily to them mind you, and they let industry lobbyists write many of their bills. Worst of all, their long-term plans are very risky, politically-motivated, fiscially UN-conservative, unfair, dishonest, divisive and short-sighted. Frankly I find most of GW's appearances as evasive acts, cover-ups and propaganda spin, reading from scripts someone else has written for him which have a precise political purpose but mean very little in terms of reality, their true actions and results. Karl Rove scripts Bush like a robot most of the time. Without a script, Bush tries to say as little as possible and get befuddled when asked complex questions. He falls back on simplistic black + white notions which are not realistic, and he's often like a bull in a china shop, or a bullshit artist at a conman's convention. Take your pick. It's frankly a wonder GW Bush ever rose beyond the rank of congressman or mayor of Midland. I find him a dishonest intellectual midget with little of true substance to say to anyone. And what he does say has clearly been thought up by someone else for the good of someone else other than you and me.