Friday, October 27, 2006

Bush Is Unlike Any President Before Him

Brent Budowsky says it better than I ever could:
The sick thing about George W. Bush is that unlike any President who has ever come before him he has injected vomit, hate, and slander into the heart of our democracy and has put under attack the very character of the American people.

What George W. Bush has done, is nothing less than a direct attack on the very notion that America is a melting pot, he strikes at the core of who we are as a country, and he demeans the soul of what we stand for as a people. [...]

Make Americans the enemies of each other, is what he does, and fear the world around you, is what he says.

If it helps to win, make fun of Parkinsons disease, ridicule the widows of 9-11, bring more prejudice and bigotry to the land, demean the Purple Heart to attack your enemies even if they were awarded medals for valor, and in truth, if they were awarded medals for valor, that is a reason to attack them some more in this sick new brand of partisanship that has poisoned our politics.

Even when the Republican Congress commits child abuse against underage pages, cover it up, protect the guilty, attack your enemies and endanger the children and hope the American people have so lowered their standards that they get away, even, with this.
[emphasis added]

Bring fear to the land.

Bring anger to our politics.

Bring division to our communities.

Bring more bigotry to our nation and rub it raw, and use it harshly, and do anything to win.

This is nothing more than a direct attack on the character of our country, this is nothing less than an attempt to lower the standards of the character of our people.
Read the rest of Brent's post and see what you can to do help stop it - and then vote a straight Democratic ticket in November.

3 comments:

Lew Scannon said...

Hey! Bush has accomplished a lot during his tenure, just none of it any good!

Kathy said...

Kvatch, I give frogs a break when it comes to typos! Your point about demonizing the other side as non-human is a good one.

Graeme, I liked it too. I think all those things but can't find the words to put them on paper (or the internet).

Troll, thanks for dropping by. Good point you made about Bush. That will be his legacy - failure.

Anonymous said...

Well said! BushCo's shameful reliance on lies and fear have undermined this country more than I would have imagined possible even a few years ago.