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

To: E who wrote (650476)	10/23/2004 4:13:46 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

Embarrassed for GOP In most elections, I have voted for Republicans. I cannot, however, understand why so many Americans in general and my fellow Republicans in particular think George Bush should be re-elected. While not without some strengths, it takes a lot of looking to find anything over that the past three-plus years that warrants anything but humiliation for both the GOP and America. Bush promised to bring honesty and integrity back to the Oval Office only to surpass even Bill Clinton in his level of duplicity, secrecy, creative telling, half-truths and closed-door dealings. He promised to be an effective and responsible steward of our economy only to pursue an economic and fiscal policy that can only be described as short-sighted, politically expedient and ideological in the extreme -- one that it's likely even my children will still be paying for. He promised to make America again stand tall in the eyes of the world only to deride all those who have dared question either our intent or actions, and trash many of the agreements that bought us much of the moral and political clout we've enjoyed. He promised to be a uniter not a divider -- and has done everything in his power, not to mention all that post-Sept. 11 patriotism, to pursue a purely ideological agenda of his own. He promised to make us safer and has pursued a course that can -- at best -- only be considered mixed while diverting and squandering many of the resources, lives and relationships that we'll need to truly make us safer. Joseph Whitmer Spring Mills