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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (493623)	11/16/2003 5:30:35 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

why not walk out in the open and take his chances like our men and women in Iraq have to do. because he might get shot. kennedy was shot 40 years ago. it would be stupid to let an individual or a small group easily kill an american president.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (493623)	11/16/2003 5:54:12 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Lizzie, I think you have hit on an interesting observation. The Bush Secret Service preparations for a trip to Buckingham Palace and a royal fantasy are nothing short of paranoia. Requesting, in fact demanding that that the Queen install bomb proof windows because of the one-in-a-million chance of a rocket attack on the Palace makes the Bushies look like the ultimate in "Chicken Littles™". Bush is looking like a complete fool at this time. W/R/T the mess that California Democrats have created, I must admit to my disappointment with the voters of California who had a chance to do something very sensible. To tell both major political parties "a curse on both your houses". I've reviewed the platforms of Richard Riordan, Peter Camejo and Arianna Huffington, and any one of them would have been a better pick for Governor. I realize that Riordan is a Republican, but he is certainly not a right winger in support of Bush, or a phony like Arnold who is all hat and no cattle. Beyond Riordan, the choice of Camejo or Huffington would have been just the sort of time-out from the partisan bickering of the Dems and Repugs that might well have been the best way to address California's fiscal woes. Compared to Arnold's pie-in-the-sky promises, Camejo's down-to-earth, sensible and fair fiscal solutions look like the thoughts of a genius. Arnold deceived the state, and relied on nothing more than celebrity to sell himself to a remarkably ignorant and willfully apathetic electorate. I fear for the future of democracy. The people of this nation have never been really all that prepared to play their role in a democratic system. Now, after 30 years of cynical efforts by the elites to dim down our education system, we may have reached a tipping point where even middle class citizens are no longer capable of analyzing the platforms and policies of the candidates offered, and merely react in a purely Pavlovian fashion to the image hints purveyed by a cynical army of psyops specialists and public relations hyenas. Public discourse continues to reach new lows every election cycle in America. A perfect scenario for the power grab that the elites are orchestrating in order to reduce the U.S.A. to a third world oligopoly. And Arnold loves every minute of this disaster movie and he loves the role he's playing in perpetrating this tragedy for our nation.