"Hating Bush Is Not A Winning Ticket"
I'd like to take this entry to paraphrase a Newsweek column by Jonathan Alter.
Only key points that I found important will be quoted here, so to read the whole story, check out the August 2nd, 2004 edition of Newsweek.
"Since at least 1988, the Republicans have simply been better street fighters, from crushing Michael Dukakis as an unpatriotic sissy on phony issues like the pledge of Allegiance to relentlessly trashing Bill Clinton to turning Al Gore's extremely minor misstatements into 'evidence' that he was a MONUMENTAL liar." <--wtf?
"Without a mandate, he [Bush] rammed through huge tax cuts for the rich and FORCED right-wing judges onto the bench. He sold out consumers to the pharmaceutical, insurance and energy industries. The perioid following 9/11 was even worse. Bush squandered a rare moment of national unity by failing to ask for any shared sacrifice to confront the crisis, then exploited homeland security and Iraq to skewer Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections. {thats a big one right there} Going to war in Iraq under false pretenses and botching the occupation were only the latest sources of outrage."
"A more resonant fairy tale this year is the one about the boy who cried wolf. Bush says we are more secure, but by crying wolf over Iraq and WMD, he will make it harder the next time to rouse world opinion against real nuclear wolves in Iran, North Korea or elsewhere. {here's another important part} And by alienating allies, he has made it harder to root out Al Qaeda."
[paraphrase:] It is best to explain how Bush and his cronies look like grown-ups but have made one incompetent decision after another resulting in disasterous consequences.
The moral of the story is that violently attacking President Bush for is stuidity and false pretenses is not the way to go as far as supporting a better nation is concerned. Adopting the Republican way of street fighting to release dirt on opponents will only result in alienating key swing voters into re-electing Bush. Find out the facts, how Bush has put us into a predicament of sending soldier after soldier to their deaths in Iraq for reasons still unspecified. All the while losing the support of some of out key allies transatlantic.
This is not a left-wing attack on Republicans, rather a strive to reveal what should be known about President Bush's term in office.
For even more information in a fun game, try www.emogame.com and click on Bushgame. That is a little more liberal but reveals some key facts like how some 95% of the tax cuts went to the top 1% of the wealthy people.
Only key points that I found important will be quoted here, so to read the whole story, check out the August 2nd, 2004 edition of Newsweek.
"Since at least 1988, the Republicans have simply been better street fighters, from crushing Michael Dukakis as an unpatriotic sissy on phony issues like the pledge of Allegiance to relentlessly trashing Bill Clinton to turning Al Gore's extremely minor misstatements into 'evidence' that he was a MONUMENTAL liar." <--wtf?
"Without a mandate, he [Bush] rammed through huge tax cuts for the rich and FORCED right-wing judges onto the bench. He sold out consumers to the pharmaceutical, insurance and energy industries. The perioid following 9/11 was even worse. Bush squandered a rare moment of national unity by failing to ask for any shared sacrifice to confront the crisis, then exploited homeland security and Iraq to skewer Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections. {thats a big one right there} Going to war in Iraq under false pretenses and botching the occupation were only the latest sources of outrage."
"A more resonant fairy tale this year is the one about the boy who cried wolf. Bush says we are more secure, but by crying wolf over Iraq and WMD, he will make it harder the next time to rouse world opinion against real nuclear wolves in Iran, North Korea or elsewhere. {here's another important part} And by alienating allies, he has made it harder to root out Al Qaeda."
[paraphrase:] It is best to explain how Bush and his cronies look like grown-ups but have made one incompetent decision after another resulting in disasterous consequences.
The moral of the story is that violently attacking President Bush for is stuidity and false pretenses is not the way to go as far as supporting a better nation is concerned. Adopting the Republican way of street fighting to release dirt on opponents will only result in alienating key swing voters into re-electing Bush. Find out the facts, how Bush has put us into a predicament of sending soldier after soldier to their deaths in Iraq for reasons still unspecified. All the while losing the support of some of out key allies transatlantic.
This is not a left-wing attack on Republicans, rather a strive to reveal what should be known about President Bush's term in office.
For even more information in a fun game, try www.emogame.com and click on Bushgame. That is a little more liberal but reveals some key facts like how some 95% of the tax cuts went to the top 1% of the wealthy people.