I *knew* there were a lot of smart people on this thread. :)
My beef is with the media...they steer the people just like cattle to what they want. Every once in a while the people will surprise the media like voting in Bush in 2000. The media did not like that at all and they have done everything they can to 'tell' the people what a mistake they made!
When the people didn't take their direction again in 2004, the media started to rip every single person in the administration to shreads. Just like the germans said during WWII...if you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth. That is what the media does...they say and print their VERSION of the truth, which makes it not at all, until the people who only hear their 10 second sound bites and read only the headlines start to believe the media.