Text 1495, 221 rader
Skriven 2004-08-28 07:15:49 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Kommentar till text 1491 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
Ärende: Incompetent
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28 Aug 04 07:31, BOB SAKOWSKI wrote to ALL:
BS> Is the boy king incompetent? Richard Reeves counts the ways.
BS> THE REAL ISSUE: BUSH IS INCOMPETENT
BS> Fri Aug 27, 2:43 AM ET
BS> By Richard Reeves
BS> NEW YORK -- President Bush (news - web sites) is coming to town.
BS> You better
BS> watch out, you better not shout -- unless you're a certified
BS> delegate
BS> inside Madison Square Garden. With protesters somewhere out of
BS> sight, the
BS> Republican National Convention will be a celebration of the
BS> ideology,
BS> values and interests served by this second Bush presidency.
BS> Latest headlines:
BS> · Kerry, Greenspan Differ on Social Security
BS> AP - 13 minutes ago
BS> · Kerry Steps Up Attack on Bush's Economic Record
BS> Reuters - 17 minutes ago
BS> · NYC Police Arrest 250 in Bicycle Protest
BS> AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
BS> All Election Coverage
BS> Richard Reeves
Another whiner wasting paper and ink.
BS> Whether you agree or disagree with the words pouring from the
BS> podium over
BS> Americans who see reflections of themselves in George W. Bush, the
BS> real
BS> issue of this election will not be mentioned. The core issue is
BS> this: Our
BS> president is incompetent. He is not a good president.
BS> Let me count the ways:
BS> (1) He has divided the country; we are all part of a vicious
BS> little hissing
BS> match. We were united and humbled on Sept. 12, 2001. We are
BS> divided and
BS> humiliated now, telling lies about each other.
Hmmm. Let's see, it was Al Gore and the Democrats who filed suit in the 2000
election, not George Bush or the GOP. Who divided who here?
BS> (2) He has divided the world. "We are all Americans now,"
BS> headlined Le
BS> Monde on that Sept. 12. Now there are days when it seems as if
BS> they are all
BS> anti-Americans.
Bull hockey. Most of the world was properly horrified by 9/11, but most of
them also heaved a huge collective sigh of relief that it was us and not them,
who got hit.
BS> (3) He is leaving no child or grandchild without debt. He has
BS> taken the
BS> government from surplus into deficit in the name of national
BS> security and
BS> increased private investment. We can pay the debt in two ways:
BS> with more
BS> government revenues (taxation) or by borrowing -- against the
BS> sweat and
BS> income of new generations. The president has chosen to borrow.
Right. We've been attacked and thousands of Americans murdered, and we're
supposed to just sit there and do nothing because it might run up the deficit?
It costs money to prosecute a war, or perhaps nobody told you liberals that.
BS> (4) He campaigns as a champion of smaller government, but is
BS> greatly
BS> increasing the size and role of government. Ideological
BS> conservatism, it
BS> turns out, costs just as much or more than ideological liberalism.
BS> Conservative and liberal politicians are both for increasing the
BS> reach and
BS> power of government. The difference between them is which parts
BS> and
BS> functions of the state are to be empowered and financed. The
BS> choice is
BS> between military measures and order, or more redistribution of
BS> income.
BS> Money is power.
Let's see, we've been attacked, necessitating major changes in a wide variety
of areas to deal with things we've never had to deal with before. But we're
supposed to avoid doing anthing that might add any more bodies to the
employment list.
BS> (5) He is diminishing the military of which he is so proud now as
BS> commander
BS> in chief. The invasion and occupation of Iraq (news - web sites)
BS> have
BS> obviously not worked out the way he imagined -- naked torture was
BS> not the
BS> goal. But the far greater problem for the future is that our proud
BS> commander has revealed the hollowness behind the unilateral
BS> superpower.
BS> From the top down, we have not been able to win Iraq, much less
BS> the world.
BS> And going into Iraq has compromised or crippled the war on terror
BS> he
BS> declared himself.
I guess you've not talked to any of the military people who actually were over
there in Iraq, have you? Or any of the millions of Iraqis who are free for the
first time in history. I guess you also didn't know that reenlistments are not
only ahead of schedule but way up, both first timers and reups. That is hardly
the result of a diminished military, or one that is low on morale. You really
need to get out more.
BS> (6) He is diminishing scientific progress, the great engine of the
BS> 20th
BS> century. Only the truly ignorant can believe that the proper role
BS> of
BS> government is to hinder medical research and environmental study
BS> in the
BS> name of God.
This has got to be about stem cell research, right? Cutting funding for junk
science is all of a sudden diminishing research. Sort of like a decrease in
the amount of growth is a cut in money spent, right? Cheap rhetoric.
BS> (7) He is diminishing the Constitution of the United States.
BS> Cheesy tricks
BS> like amending the great text of freedom to attack homosexuality
BS> can be
BS> dismissed as wedge politics. But it is worse to preach against an
BS> activist
BS> judiciary while appointing more activist judges who happen to hold
BS> different beliefs, particularly the idea that civil liberties are
BS> the
BS> enemies of patriotism, security and freedom itself.
And having 5% of the population virtually dismantle the traditional values of
the other 95% so they can engage in buggery legally isn't playing fast and
loose with the Constitution? A judge who tries to walk the line and follow the
Constitution is labeled an activist, while judges who trash every tradition and
tenet of religious life in this country are elevated on high as heroes of the
common man.
BS> (8) He has surrounded himself with other incompetents. The
BS> secretary of
BS> state is presiding over the rape of diplomacy and its alliances.
BS> The
BS> secretary of defense has sent our young men and women into
BS> situations they
BS> were never meant or trained to handle, and now they are being
BS> ordered into
BS> battle by an appointed minister in a faraway land. The national
BS> security
BS> adviser does not seem to know that her job description includes
BS> coordinating defense and diplomacy. And then there was our
BS> $340,000-a-month
BS> local hire, Ahmed Chalabi, sitting in the gallery of our House.
Ahh, another pacifist. You guys never learn from history, do you?
BS> (9) He has been unable or unwilling to deal with declining
BS> employment and
BS> the rising medical costs of becoming an older nation.
Hmm. Wall Street credits Bush with stopping the recession dead in its tracks
with a small tax rebate. Jobs are always the last thing to recover when coming
out of a recession, but that's all his fault, right? If there's any blame
attached to the job market decline, let's at least get right whose fault it is.
The recession started on Clinton's watch, not Bush's. The main point,
however, is that no president is ever really responsible for what the economy
and job do, except in very rare cases. Bush gets credit for stopping the
recession, according to the experts. The rest of it is out of his hands.
BS> (10) He is, as if by design, destroying the credibility of the
BS> United
BS> States as a force for peace in the world -- an honest broker --
BS> particularly in the Middle East.
Oh? Suddenly, when we step up and say enough is enough, and take the fight to
the terrorists, we're suddenly destroying world peace. Sorry, we don't choose
to live like sheep in abject fear of the next time the wolf decides to come to
supper. And, as for the middle east, Bush has forced Arafat out, the first
really positive chance for peace there in 50 years.
BS> The list is longer, miscalculation after miscalculation. President
BS> Bush has
BS> not been able to function effectively at this pay grade. He may
BS> mean well,
BS> but this has been a difficult time, and he is in over his head. We
BS> and our
BS> kids will pay the price for his blundering, blunderbuss adventure
BS> in
BS> Washington. He has been tested in a difficult time -- and,
BS> unhappily for
BS> all of us and the world, he has not been up to the job.
Sorry, but we aren't going to be patsies for the left any more. Why don't you
liberal types who just hate America so much just move to Canada? I hear the
socio-economic and political atmosphere up there is much more congenial to the
liberal mindset. Good luck, eh?
John
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