It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood,
A Beautiful Day For A Neighbor,
Would You Be Mine,
Could You Be Mine,
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
*
Okay, now that's done.
When the US Presidential election is over,
let's go bomb somebody.
*
Have any of us seen the documentary shown recently called "Bush's War"?
Or more correctly, that should be, "...have any of we seen the documentary?"
*
Let's just say that all the hard line stuff about Iraq was strongly supported by Cheney and Rumsfeld, and Bush liked those guys a lot, cause they're serious dudes, so he generally liked whatever they told him.
*
There were apparently many times when the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State were completely shut out of major foreign policy decisions, especially those regarding Afghanistan and Iraq.
*
And there were actually times the Secretary of State could not even get a meeting with the President of the US on his own; he had to enlist the help of the National Security Advisor to even see his boss.
*
!!!!!
I mean, seriously.
!
*
Another lesson:
*
When President Bush makes decisions, even major, important decisions, he is known for making them quickly.
*
This is not a bad thing in and of itself.
*
But after he has made such a decision, he seems to feel, and has expressed to others, that to later change a decision is somehow just plain wrong.
*
Wow.
*
So there is no learning from experience, no contemplation of new information. This behavior leads to: No going back under any circumstances, no matter how wrong a decision was, even one made on false or incorrect information...
?
!
Yes, we are stuck with this Alfred E. Newman With Nukes until January 20, 2009.
How can such a person actually get elected President?
*
By getting support from herds of Washington DC, New York, Texas and Connecticut family old cronies and old money fat cats, by smearing John McCain early in his first Presidential Primaries, by casting doubt on McCain's war hero status (compared to Bush who stayed home due to the old money / crony family connections !!!).
*
I mean, really, Jesus, sometimes we are a monumentally stupid electorate.
*
But then Bush's record was there for all of us to see:
*
- Mediocre academic student at Yale
- Member of Skull & Bones, and a cheerleader
- MBA at Harvard - grades unknown but generally well liked
*
- He was a Senior Partner or Ceo in several failed business ventures,
including the following businesses:
*
Which all failed in consecutive order, even while getting cash investments from old family friends and Middle East oil connection investors.
Arbusto became Bush Exploration, got cash invested from a family friend and still was failing, so it merged with Spectrum 7.
Spectrum 7 lost money and was bought out by Harken.
Harken was failing as well, until it got a contract to drill for oil off the coast of Bahrain, which shocked industry insiders because Harken had no experience in offshore drilling. Shortly after that, Bush sold most of his shares in Harken and one week later the company reported a loss of $23.2 million, triggering the SEC investigation. There were charges against Bush of insider trading, which after an investigation, the SEC concluded that Bush did not have enough inside information to warrant a case.
*
- He invested $800,000 in the Texas Rangers baseball team, becoming managing General Partner for 5 years, which is the one position in which he seems to have been successful. He was creating publicity and promoting the team, generally being a cheerleader again, and his initial investment grew to $15 million in 9 years.
*
- Received special treatment many times over the years, but probably not much more than the average wealthy, connected family's children received, and yet, do we really want to elect a kid like that as President? His Father, George H. W. Bush had the same privileges, but that man actually served in war, and actually built a successful company, and was a better leader because of those experiences.
*
- Hires Cheney to form his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and then Cheney says, "Hey, I've decided what the most important attributes for the job are, and it turns out I'm the only one in the country who has them all, so I'm your VP!" And Bush doesn't keep looking, but accepts that answer?????
Few things shout "Dimbulb" as loudly.
*
- Says that God wanted him to be President. That should have been all the warning we needed, but nooooo...preachers, pastors and priests everywhere told their congregations to vote for the evangelical guy, and look what it got us.
*
Let's hope we can break the cycle and elect someone competent this time.
*
Someone willing to think things through, at least a little.
Someone willing to learn from their own mistakes.
Someone who doesn't claim divine providence for their every action.
Someone who won't hire Cheney or Rumsfeld and then do anything they say.
*
If not, big suckie time again! And we don't need that. Do we need that? We don't need that...
*
Really.
No comments:
Post a Comment