TREASONOUS BUSH FOSTERING FASCISM :Bill Gallagher

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TREASONOUS BUSH FOSTERING FASCISM
By Bill Gallagher
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher249.html

DETROIT -- We, the suffering American people, are now in the sixth winter of our national discontent, thoroughly numbed by President George W. Bush's radical agenda, wild misjudgments and wholesale lies. He sells fear to win support, when it is he we must fear most.

The nation and world brace to endure more of Bush's obsessions, miscalculations, greed and sheer incompetence. We are in the seventh hell of an administration that claims all power and denies all responsibility. The state of our union is frightening.

These are very dangerous times. Nothing in our national experience has prepared us for the chilling consequences of the double dose of foreign and domestic irresponsibility and recklessness Bush has wrought.

Of course, I wish I could say I anticipated the cold reality of the Bushevik horrors. I didn't. I was horribly wrong. While I get a steady flow of hate mail accusing me of "hating Bush," I don't. I simply pity him as a tragically flawed figure who happens to be far more lucky than good and an effective prop for the interests he gladly serves. I do despise what he has done to our nation already and fear what's to come.

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1. Amazing that this appeared in print! Someone will try to take this

guy out. At least, some Americans have been warned about where we're headed.

[Caoimhe]

2. I wonder

I used to listen to a wonderful reporter named Bill Gallagher in the Portland, Oregon area. Probably just a coincidence. Pretty common name.


VERY eloquently worded and heartfelt.
K/R!

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[bullimiami]

3. brilliant. nt.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. k&R n/t

[Uncle Joe]

5. Most excellent column!

Kicked and recommended!

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[quiet.american]

6. I love how the author doesn't let himself off the hook either.

Reflecting on what I anticipated and wrote when the supremely ill-qualified Texas cowpoke took office on that bleak January day, I now realize what a fool I was.

I praised his inaugural speech, calling it "stunning." Dubya quoted Mother Teresa and urged Americans to see the "pain of poverty." The president who went on to do more to enrich the rich and steal from the poor than any other in our history was calling on people to sacrifice to help others.

"I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort," Bush said. He fretted that, in times of economic decline, "the vulnerable will suffer most."

And then, in one of the most pixilated moments in my life, I gushed in the column that "our 43rd president set a decent tone for his administration far different from his shrill campaign. He called for 'a nation of civility, courage, compassion and character.'"

-- And the author works for FoxNews2?! -- wonders never cease.

[GetTheRightVote]

7. All I can think to say is WOW, in print and circulations !!!

So some reporters still feel free to speak, hmmmm.

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[Vidar]

8. Good article. Thanks for poasting.