'Bush backers can't help it: They can't see real world'

[Clinton Crusader]

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Tom Brazaitis: 'Bush backers can't help it: They can't see real world'
Date: Sunday, October 24

By Tom Brazaitis, Cleveland Plain Dealer

In case you hadn't noticed, I dropped off the presidential campaign for a while to get my bearings on what some experts are calling "the most important election of our lives."

I'm back now with some new perspectives on the race between Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger, John Kerry of Massachusetts.

Previously, I believed that another term of Bush in the Oval Office would be bad for the country - and the world. After all, Bush had inherited history's healthiest economy and given it the flu. Jobs gave way to joblessness; the environment resembles the conference room after the annual office party, and lasting peace looks a lot like perpetual war. How much more damage should one man be allowed to inflict on his fellow citizens?

In the almost four years since Bush took over the nation's top job, life has gotten harder for most Americans. To- day, the answer to Ronald Reagan's taunting 1980 question - "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" - is a resounding, "No." Small wonder the voters sent President Jimmy Carter packing after one term.
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[Mountainman]

1. This explains the wingnut denial pretty well. I blame the conservative

talk radio for creating the cult of ignorance and those so willing to give their minds over to them.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Hit the nail CLEAN on the head.

the roots of this denial may lie in the trauma of 9/11 and "people's desire to hold on to their image of Bush as a capable protector."

Oh, so that means photo-opping in the Booker School classroom while thousands are burnt or plunging?? P-P-P-PLEASE!

Yeah, he was really there for those 13 or so DC sniper victims. He was really the benevolent dictator at all of those military funerals he attended.