He didn’t win me over, either. His address to Congress a few days after 9/11 received wild acclaim, you might recall — that was the “let’s roll” speech — but it struck me at the time as being all rhetoric, no content.

I thought about that and eventually asked myself what someone who ignored their stated goals would make of their actual accomplishments.

“Actions speak louder than words.”

I think that someone who evaluated them that way would decide that they’re actually a fairly competent bunch of thieves and con-artists, and that they have no more interest in their stated policy goals than will harmonize with funneling an awful lot of our money to their cronies.

That explains their work as well as anything else I can come up with.

With kind regards,
Dog, etc.
searching for home

What I’ll remember of 9-11 was that the acting President of the United States was Karen Hughes… the actual president seemed to be on a cross-country joyride. Ironic, given that he was a short car ride away from Central Command at McDill AFB near Tampa at the time the nation (or at least, those of us expendable people in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who didn’t vote for the whiny, phony little bastard and therefore really didn’t need it anyway) needed some level of reassurance that our nation was remotely capable of protecting us… got nothin’.

Which is pretty much what the po’ folks in New Orleans got as well.

Not having cable, and thus cut out of watching Spike Lee’s Katrina films, I settled for tonight’s Dateline with Brian Williams. Yes, I know; all msm is shudder-inducing. But a year later, Bri is still one very pissed-off American. He may not carry the moral weight of Uncle Walter finally blowing the lid off the debacle of ‘Nam, but he reiterated every skin-crawling, heart-wrenching, fist-clenching horror of those five days last year, and I found myself boiling over with rage all over again. If anyone else was watching, and they have a functioning heart and brain, I expect they were feeling exactly the same.

And the election is 10 weeks from tomorrow….

You have to discount everything the guy says – which is purely there for public manipulation – and look what his regime actually does:

- The regime starts wars overseas, over phony reasons, because the rich and powerful want them. Realize that Bush and Cheney are oilmen. We wouldn’t be in Iraq if the principal export was grapefruit.

- The regime turns all problems and disasters, large (Katrina) and more quiet ones (the unaffordability of health care) into opportunities to improve their political position. They are plainly not interested in solving these problems for the benefit of all. They are plainly interested in using them to gain more power for themselves.

In every case, government is a tool to be used to the regime’s political advantage. It is a profit center. So is the entire country for that matter, something to be milked in as many ways possible.

As such, Bush plays a very important role – he’s the PR guy who placates the rubes. Despite his upper class origins, he has managed to skillfully affect a lower class vibe that attracts lots of under-achievers like himself. You could have a beer with this guy. As such, he’s a very important player in the right’s takeover of this country. He’s just the front guy, he’s not the one who’s really calling the shots, in many cases. Others, like Cheney or Rove, with Junior’s blessing, create the context, or the situations that Junior finds himself in, performing in front of the public.

Actions speak louder than words. Turn down the volume on Bush and see what his regime is really doing.

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I hope you don’t mind me going a little OT.

I had a dream last night, where I was speaking with George Bush. He was very open, friendly, and candid with me, and I felt disarmed and drawn into his circle of acquaintanceship. I was mostly listening in the dream, and not challenging him on anything political, both because he disarmed me, and because it was evident in the dream that he was insane.

In the dream, he spoke about how he never liked “El Shaddai” or something similar – Bush mangled the phrase, and it was to him an abbreviation for a nonsensical saying, which he spelled out to me, but I don’t remember. In my waking life, I know thise phrase to be a synonym for God, particularly God the Father. In the dream Bush went on to say that he wanted to “blow up the sky”, meaning climb into an F-16 or other jet and start blowing things up.

The rest of the dream involved me finding others in the military or government to somehow stop this guy. What was interesting is that nobody needed convincing that the man was insane and needed to be stopped. It was just a question of how.

Lots of Oedipal themes here, and what was so real to me was Bush’s utter childishness and the completely open way he revealed his childishness. It was like conversing with a six year old who happened to be at the head of the most powerful nation on earth.

I hope this was at least entertaining, to me it was also revealing. Thanks for indulging me.

These ‘leaders’ and their followers are a pack of deranged psychopths who have done and are doing fearful damage to our nation and society while most Americans doze in an alchoholic stupor in front of the TV.

Thankfully, maha is not one of those.

Keep hammerin” away. The people are starting to listen.

And yeah, I think Losermann, Emmanuel, Schumer and The Boxer Short are scum too.