Times Are Changing, Thanks to Bush’s War

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Times Are Changing,
Thanks to Bush’s War By: Hank Sheinkopf
Date: 5/8/2006

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=12747&ic=Conason



After almost two generations, we may have beaten the curse of 1968. It has taken 40 years to reunite America, to get past Richard Nixon’s divisive campaign of that year. It was Nixon who created the then-new Republican majority with a campaign focused on hatred of those who were opposed to the war in Vietnam, and just plain fear.


Now, the Bush-Rumsfeld gang have mismanaged this generation’s war, and they’ve become the new heretics. They have used the symbols of religion to smear the new unbelievers. Mr. Bush and company—the true descendants of Richard Nixon—don’t favor a fair tax system, public discussion of issues, controls on Presidential power. Or dissent. But the rest of us—or at least most of us—do.

If Americans have gone beyond the pain of another era, we have only one person to thank. And that is President George W. Bush. He has united most of us. He has shortened the distance between North and South, East and West. He has made us all a little closer. Bully for him.

By the way: The Johnson-A.E.A. poll shows that over 75 percent of those surveyed are regular churchgoers.

And that might be the best news of all.

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1. "this generation's war"

see my sig line. There has not been a war in our generation. Only a series of turkey shoots. :-(

[Demeter]

2. This Would Be Good News---If It Is True

I need some more data to draw such a hopeful, cheerful conclusion.

Besides, morons are like vampires--it takes a lot of pure sunlight to finish them off.