Let's honor our country

Jul 04, 2007 09:57

I think everyone should watch this scathing commentary on the Scooter scandal, which I want to thank suzvoy for posting ( Read more... )

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happier_bunny July 4 2007, 14:07:23 UTC
The slap in the face to the American people over this is disgusting.

It makes it hard to appreciate our so-called independence when he acts as a King (just as you dubbed him). I do not at all understand how anyone can still approve of him.

The whole thing makes me sick.

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jane2005 July 4 2007, 14:22:19 UTC
The whole thing makes me sick.

Me too. And the irony of him doing this right before Independence Day? Our independence, those very freedoms Shrub touts, depends on the laws and human rights our system of government has set up, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." The fact that our president has subverted those laws at every turn, challenging the very system he had sworn to protect when he isn't outright lying his way through the process to speed us into war, demands that something drastic be done.

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happier_bunny July 4 2007, 14:27:36 UTC
The fact that he did it before the Fourth only more clearly illustrates that which we know: He doesn't care what any of us think. It's horrific enough that he was going to do it at all (but I'm not really surprised...I mean is anyone?) but to do it before this holiday...

I'm all for impeachment, but of course I have been for a very long time.

ok, it's sad that I don't have one appropriately serious icon for this discussion. LOL

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_alicesprings July 4 2007, 14:18:43 UTC
Brilliant! But did anyone in mainstream America see it?

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happier_bunny July 4 2007, 14:23:18 UTC
I hadn't seen it yet, but I would have. Keith Olbermann is often my hero but he's really said it all with this.

Countdown is a daily show on MSNBC.

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jane2005 July 4 2007, 14:27:15 UTC
He's my hero now, too.

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_alicesprings July 4 2007, 14:27:40 UTC
Cool. Thanks!

We hear so much down here about how the liberal media is stifled and it's almost impossible for journalists to ask quetions and get answers directly from the president, and about how biased Fox and right-wing news organisations are. (Whether any of it's true or not, I don't know.)

It's refreshing to see this.

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chering July 4 2007, 14:38:30 UTC
Thanks so much for passing this on, Jane. My life as been too frazzled to watch much TV and I had missed this comment from this eloquent man.

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jane2005 July 4 2007, 14:55:39 UTC
You're welcome! It was beautifully angry, wasn't it?

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Impeachment fansee July 4 2007, 15:15:17 UTC
I will only allow you to impeach Bush AFTER you impeach Cheney.

I have a friend who was an investment banker. He met, and worked with, Cheney and said he was scary dangerous. My friend is not a man unaccumtomed to meeting the powerful, nor is he easily frightened, so I am impressed. Furthermore, everything we know of Cheney's activities reinforces my friend's opinion. FanSee

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Re: Impeachment jane2005 July 4 2007, 15:16:56 UTC
Yikes.

I like that Jon Stewart always presents Cheney as Darth Vader. He really is. "Scary dangerous," exactly.

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Re: Impeachment court1429 July 4 2007, 17:16:00 UTC
Yes, I agree. It would be even worse to impeach Bush prior to Cheney. And I agree with your friend. He's very much scary dangerous.

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cempakasari July 4 2007, 15:41:54 UTC
I could be imagining this, but did Keith tremble/shake during one part of the commentary?

I think the majority of Americans are just waiting out the rest of Bush's term and hoping that things will get better. Impeachment won't happen, sadly.

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jane2005 July 4 2007, 19:33:29 UTC
Oh, I saw the shaking - he was infuriated. Frankly, it was good to see someone channeling my own feelings.

I think the majority of Americans are just waiting out the rest of Bush's term and hoping that things will get better.

I actually am taking the long view on this one - and hoping that these fuck ups make people realize what this sort of zealous right-wing agenda leads to. Unfortunately, I think most people are complacent and don't like to think. As long as they don't directly experience something, the abstraction and symbolic nature means nothing to them. Oh, unless the invisible little man circling the earth forbade it 3000 years ago.

/rant

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cempakasari July 4 2007, 19:45:41 UTC
I agree with you. Unless something drastically change and the Americans can see the direct relations of the Bush administration/heavy partisan politics to their day-to-day existence, the kind of mass outrage needed to change things will not materialized.

Oh, unless the invisible little man circling the earth forbade it 3000 years ago.
Who?

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jane2005 July 4 2007, 20:12:22 UTC
Who?

God. I realize I made him sound like an astronaut, instead of hovering behind the clouds.

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