Text 27994, 49 rader
Skriven 2007-03-25 10:49:44 av Stan Hardegree (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 27680 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Support
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I can no longer be counted among the ranks of Bush supporters.  I no longer
support President Bush for a number of reasons, primary among them:

1.  Bush and Co. simply cannot figure out how to get themselves 12 hours
ahead of the news cycle.  This dreadful failure can be laid directly at the
feet of Tony Snow.  I understand that his cancer is back and that may be
effecting his performance, but reacting to news instead of shaping it is
Snow's responsibility.  Walter Reed and the firing of US Attorneys are non
stories that Snow is not handling well.

2.  Bush refuses to play hard ball with the democrats.  When he was elected,
Bush promised a new tone in Washington in which he would work with
Congressional democrats, and he has been true to his word.  In fact, Bush
let the insufferable drunk Ted Kennedy shape the No Child Left Behind Bill.
He invites these scummy people to the White House to watch sports events and
fellowship with him when he should be fighting them in the trenches, new
tone be damned.  At every turn, W praises Bill Clinton, the sleaziest man
ever elected to high office in this country (impeached, disbarred,
disgraced).  The Bushes rightly hold the Clintons in complete and utter
contempt, and the president should allow that contempt to be manifest by
calculated indifference to both of the scumbags.

3.  We are doing good things in both Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the president
cannot seem to find the voice necessary to articulate our successes there,
ceding the issue to the scumbags in the democrat party and the mainstream
press.  I have  vested interest in success in Iraq, and it infuriates me
that W can't find his voice in this matter.  My 21-year-old son is better at
talking up our successes in the Middle East than his commander in chief is.

4.  Bush allows himself - and by extension this country - to be lectured to
by foreign leaders - particularly those in Latin America who criticize our
immigration policies.  He ought to look these tin-horn leaders in the eye
and tell them that their people are tying to get here because of 1)
reproductive irresponsibility and 2) because most of Latin America has yet
to figure out how to create and nurture a middle class that would employ the
products of such irresponsibility.

5.  The 2006 elections were disastrous for this country, and I lay
responsiblity for that fiasco directly at the feet of George Bush, whose RNC
failed to craft a coherent message for the campaign.  Two years ago, Bush
had the brass ring, notching an impressive victory over Sad Sack and his
girly veep.  He squandered all that capital in about 18 months and handed
Congress to the wack fringe of American politics.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi????
John Conyers as a committee chairman??  Give me a fucking break.

I remain a loyal Republican, but I no longer support the president.

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