Do You Think He's Worried Yet?
I wonder what it will take for Dubya to get nervous? It is only 2006 and so much shit has hit the fan. The dumb war has raged on for 3 years. Iraq is verging on a meltdown. Iran and North Korea are soon to become nuclear. The entire world sees us as power-hungry. Our weakest link (the ports) is still our weakest link. We are trillions in debt. Osama is still running around. Valerie Plame. Libby. Rove. Abramoff.
Katrina. The Dubai port deal.
Those last two are finally doing it, finally getting his blind base to snap out of it. After all, this man has been turning the war on terrorism into a manichean scenario from day one. Middle East v West. Arab v White. Christianity v Islam. He won the last election by oversimplification and amplification of the terrorist threat. He's fed his supporters a steady diet of Arab = Bad for a long time and now he expects them to accept Dubai? Expects them to accept a grey area? He can't win here because Dubya is all about black and white, not shades of grey.
That Katrina video tape kills me, too. Bush, Brown etc knew about all the hazards beforehand. They were prepared for the worst...So, what happened?
And you know what? That tape was released by FEMA in August to every news bureau in the country and not one journalist looked at it? That is what is wrong with reporters and the news cycle today. They are so reactive, they keep going forward, forward, forward and never stop to look, to think, to do some research. Instead, we have Anderson Cooper blowing in the wind. Literally.
But I still love the reporters. Especially now since they are growing some balls and really going after the White House cabal. Keep at it. I want that man to go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. One who first won on a technicality and because the country was in a strange place because of a blow job. Who won again because of 9/11 and fear mongering. One who got us into a war which killed and maimed tens of thousands of people and terribly weakened the US diplomatically and economically.
Katrina. The Dubai port deal.
Those last two are finally doing it, finally getting his blind base to snap out of it. After all, this man has been turning the war on terrorism into a manichean scenario from day one. Middle East v West. Arab v White. Christianity v Islam. He won the last election by oversimplification and amplification of the terrorist threat. He's fed his supporters a steady diet of Arab = Bad for a long time and now he expects them to accept Dubai? Expects them to accept a grey area? He can't win here because Dubya is all about black and white, not shades of grey.
That Katrina video tape kills me, too. Bush, Brown etc knew about all the hazards beforehand. They were prepared for the worst...So, what happened?
And you know what? That tape was released by FEMA in August to every news bureau in the country and not one journalist looked at it? That is what is wrong with reporters and the news cycle today. They are so reactive, they keep going forward, forward, forward and never stop to look, to think, to do some research. Instead, we have Anderson Cooper blowing in the wind. Literally.
But I still love the reporters. Especially now since they are growing some balls and really going after the White House cabal. Keep at it. I want that man to go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. One who first won on a technicality and because the country was in a strange place because of a blow job. Who won again because of 9/11 and fear mongering. One who got us into a war which killed and maimed tens of thousands of people and terribly weakened the US diplomatically and economically.
posted by Bart at 10:54 PM
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