You rabble rouser you... :) Was wondering if Tony Blair, when he got the news of the attack on his Capital city while at the G8 Summit while reading nursery ryhmes to the other world leaders, sat there glassy-eyed for 5 minutes before he got off his bum.
Can't really blame Bush completely for his chipper commentary in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The American public 'can't handle the truth'. :) We think we want it, but everytime a politician actually gives it to us, (re: Mondale saying he was going to raise taxes, Reagan saying he wouldn't then doing it after he won re-election in a landslide) we turn on them.
You have to examine the whole man: His alcoholism, his being a born again Christian, his roots and his living in Texas for so many years. Alot of people think GWB is a strong Conservative with strong values and a decisive leader. I see him more as pragmatic, as a political animal, and a man that uses hot button issues to divide the Country for political gain. Not the first to do this, but that we believe him is what is embarassing...
Who knew that we could put someone in the White House that would be more devisive than Clinton...who's next? Rush Limbaugh? Michael Moore? Bring it on!!! :)
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Date: 2005-07-13 03:18 pm (UTC)Can't really blame Bush completely for his chipper commentary in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The American public 'can't handle the truth'. :) We think we want it, but everytime a politician actually gives it to us, (re: Mondale saying he was going to raise taxes, Reagan saying he wouldn't then doing it after he won re-election in a landslide) we turn on them.
You have to examine the whole man: His alcoholism, his being a born again Christian, his roots and his living in Texas for so many years. Alot of people think GWB is a strong Conservative with strong values and a decisive leader. I see him more as pragmatic, as a political animal, and a man that uses hot button issues to divide the Country for political gain. Not the first to do this, but that we believe him is what is embarassing...
Who knew that we could put someone in the White House that would be more devisive than Clinton...who's next? Rush Limbaugh? Michael Moore? Bring it on!!! :)