| bigjon said: Ok fine Akuma, the media loved bush all along. They loved him the whole time they were saying he stole the 2000 election... Loving him all the time, Also My statement is broader than just the media. In Education circles, and in Celebrity statements Bush hatred has been exteme and undeserved. I think the most ridiculous attribution of evil to Bush was Katrina... I still am shocked they were able to somehow convince the blind masses that Katrina was some how Bush's fault, the Iraqi war? Come on, Like the President sets the War stategy... The only presidents ever capible of that were Eisenhower andf Washington... Maybe Grant... |
You act like the American public will believe whatever their told simply because the media says it. If that were true, the majority of Americans would think that Obama was close buddies with former terrorists, was a religious zealot, and might even be a Muslim. Yet a recent survey said that 75% of Americans think Obama will be a good or a great president, even though only 52% of people in this country voted for him.
And as far as I know no one claimed "Katrina" was Bush's fault, however, they did claim that the slow and half-hearted response of the federal government to the hurricane was Bush's fault. The reason why I fault Bush for the Katrina mess was because he wasn't willing to take responsibility for it even after the federal government had obviously dropped the ball.
He turned it into a blaming game. The Bush Administration tried to blame the Louisiana governor and the mayor of New Orleans for failing to declare a state of emergency (which they did several days before the hurricane even hit land), and then got in a power struggle over whether or not to allow the National Guard intervene. Bush visited the governor and said that they would only help out if she surrendered all her executive authority, which her advisors told her not to do since it could have a lot of severe repercussions and would allow the federal government to pin any mishandling of the situation on Louisiana, who had handled the situation as best they could with their limited resources as a state. Ironically, other states who had no obligation to help had already done so.
In response, the Bush Administration twittled its thumbs allowing thousands of people to remain stranded and helpless. They were sitting there playing politics (coincidentally trying to get Democratic officials in Louisiana to take the fall) while people were suffering. That is completely irresponsible. The media did the country and the Katrina victims a favor when it started lambasting the federal government for doing nothing whatsoever, which then triggered a quick federal response.
The Bush Administration deserved to get tarred and feathered for Katrina (which most political analysts would say was the beginning of the end in terms of Bush's approval rating) since they handled it so poorly, and even when they spun the story spun it very poorly. Putting politics and spinning headlines ahead of helping people in need when you have the constitutionally vested power to do so is extremely irresponsible.
And now you are trying to exculpate Bush from the Iraq War? Even if he wasn't responsible for mishandling the ground level operations, he was one of the biggest cheerleaders of the invasion, and stretched the conflicting evidence that Iraq had nuclear weapons as much as he could to justify invading a country who had yet to commit any overt acts against us. You can't act like he has no responsibility for what happened in Iraq when the Bush Administration was the driving force behind the invasion, which no one else ever even suggested.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
