The Case Against George W. Bush - Ron Reagan

[Roland99]

This is a few weeks old but just came across the full article:

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/040729_mfe_reagan_1.html


Long but incredibly good!



It may have been the guy in the hood teetering on the stool, electrodes clamped to his genitals. Or smirking Lynndie England and her leash. Maybe it was the smarmy memos tapped out by soft-fingered lawyers itching to justify such barbarism. The grudging, lunatic retreat of the neocons from their long-standing assertion that Saddam was in cahoots with Osama didn't hurt...

...Oddly, even my father's funeral contributed. Throughout that long, stately, overtelevised week in early June, items would appear in the newspaper discussing the Republicans' eagerness to capitalize (subtly, tastefully) on the outpouring of affection for my father and turn it to Bush's advantage for the fall election...

...The comparison underscored something important. And the guy on the stool, Lynndie, and her grinning cohorts, they brought the word: The Bush administration can't be trusted.

[MnFats]

1. Agreed! this is a great piece!!!

I plan to make copies and drop off stacks at local colleges, libraries, malls etc.....asking readers to make more copies and pass on to friends.....
it should be read by everyone...

[loveable liberal]

2. excellent piece

I love his style

[LiberalAndProud]

3. the truth shall set us free ...

just a few tidbits ...

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For him, forty-three million people without health insurance may be no more than a politically inconvenient abstraction.
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watching Bush flounder when attempting to communicate extemporaneously, one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can't speak but because he doesn't bother to think.
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If ever there was a time for uniting and not dividing, this is it. Instead, Mr. Bush governs as if by divine right, seeming to actually believe that a wise God wants him in the White House and that by constantly evoking the horrible memory of September 11, 2001, he can keep public anxiety stirred up enough to carry him to another term.
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I write and speak as nothing more or less than an American citizen, one who is plenty angry about the direction our country is being dragged by the current administration. We have reached a critical juncture in our nation's history, one ripe with both danger and possibility.