on Sep 23rd, 2007Time to Pull the Political Keys from Our Hit and Run President
Writer John Grisham kicks off our Sunday morning with a bold statement about the current Bush administration that would sound right at home in President Hilary Clinton’s acceptance speech: “I’ve always thought that they were bad people with evil intent - and all that, it’s playing out now.” You have to love the Administration’s response: “His fiscal policies have grown our economy and he has upheld America’s position as leader of the free world.” You’ve got to be kidding. Bush has invaded a sovereign territory under false pretenses, continually failed to build any kind of world coalition around his decisions, squandered the goodwill of American democracy, and financed the Iraq war on credit that will cost future generations access to social programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. This is leadership? Get real.
The price of this kind of harlequin leadership goes deeper because Bush’s spokesperson also states: “President Bush’s aggressive prosecution of the war on terror has kept America safe.” Safe from what? According to the Washington Post, the Department of Homeland Security has been noting every personal item you carry onto a plane with keen interest. This is the trade off for freedom: living under a police state mentality? If you want to catch a mouse, do you build a trap that catches everything that comes its way?
Where’s the logic in dealing with a small minority of people who have bad intentions? There are over 6 billion on the planet. Do we really need to interrogate all of them to find a handful of bad ones? Something is wrong with this strategy. It smacks of the same kind of poor thinking that guided this administration into the war believing a unified Iraq would emerge from the toppling of Hussein.
It’s time to go cold turkey on this administration’s irrational dry-drunk thinking. We, as a population, are being placed into the role of enablers to some of the worst leadership in the history of the United States. Leadership produces political decisions that are embraced by rational people in the name of social equality. All we have been subjected to since Bush took office is a drunk driver being allowed to get back in the car again. It’s time to pull the keys.
P.S. Freedom of speech used to mean that an American citizen could say what’s on their mind and not be persecuted for expressing a belief. Witness a student newspaper editor being hung out to dry because he used a four-letter word to express his anger over how the Bush administration’s policies have created an environment where dissent is tasered into submission. What was the fallout from the two-word editorial. The college bookstore pulled its advertising from the newspaper. That’s the old collegiate spirit! Students unite! Buy your books and supplies off-campus and screw the bookstore!
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