NY Observer Scathingly Rejects Bush, Endorses Kerry

[BurtWorm]

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

Oddly, the interventionist Mr. Bush is a throwback to the isolationist Republicans of another era, a generation of politicians grounded in a combination of ignorance, public pandering and anger. This self-declared "War President" who found personal purpose in 9/11 would be agog that anyone could accuse him of living in an isolationist bubble—but he is. His team cooked the books and doctored the documents to convince the world that Saddam was a mortal threat to world peace. He rewarded the few allies who agreed with him. With those who disagreed (and who were, in the end, right about Saddam’s arsenal), he was the diplomatic equivalent of the brat who plugs his fingers in his ears to keep unpleasant truths far away.

Along the way, he has subverted the American ideas of truth, democratic responsibility and respect for the citizen. He has obfuscated and sloganeered, bridling, blustering and braying when asked for accountability, displaying a bullying arrogance and pride of ignorance rarely witnessed in Presidential history. He embraced distorted information, then punished the servile C.I.A. messengers for providing exactly the disinformation his administration had demanded all along.

As a front man, this light-minded draft dodger is a pale shadow of the man he seeks to emulate, Ronald Reagan. The late President was a giant of principle and pragmatism compared to George W. Bush.

It is time for him to go. He has sharded America’s reputation abroad, weakened our economy, undermined the concept of American democracy. His Presidency has been more than a disaster: It has been an assault on the integrity of American life.

[HootieMcBoob]

1. I wish The Observer was a daily instead of a weekly paper

I may subscribe to it in its present form anyway but it would be nice to see it every day :)

[cliss]

2. That was one great editorial.

I read it in its entirety, and enjoyed every word. Whew...scathing is all I can say.