Posted on 12/31/2001 6:28:14 PM PST by Pokey78
That is also a telling example of the Bush style. In the first days after the attacks, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney decided that all the major strategic decisions about the war would be made in Washington. They built a coalition in the loosest sense ? with the exception of Britain, all the members were nonvoting partners.I wondered why I wasn't consulted.
Given the high marks he got for announcing all human beings were no longer created equal but, rather, some were manufactured in Excess of Market Demand and therefore suitable for enforced sacrificing of their lives for the really Living, I have a hard time believing Bush or his administration have a hard time announcing whatever new powers -- or funding -- they've ordained for themselves in the name of 'crisis', comrade.
They make "taking command in a crisis" sound like an impeachable offense.
Given the high marks he got a fortnight prior to 911 -- when he announced that all human beings were no longer created equal but, rather, some were manufactured in Excess of Market Demand and therefore suitable for enforced sacrificing of their lives for the really Living -- I have a hard time believing Bush or his administration have any trouble trumpteting whatever new powers -- or funding -- they've ordained for themselves in the name of 'crisis', comrade.
This article didn't even mention his laser heat-ray vision, let alone his (to be revealed in a later installment) cowboy hat of cosmic power.
Speaking of bites ... it is a hell of bitter pill for me swallow, having to vest my trust and this nation's "moral" leadership in a man who so clearly understands lives Not Worth Living.
"I said," Mr. Obey recalled, " `You can say anything you want, this is your house, Mr. President. But I've been coming down here for 30 years, and this is the first time that a president has told me his mind is closed before the subject is even opened.' " Mr. Bush was unmoved. "Thank you very much," he told the delegation, several people present said. "I've got another meeting."Doesn't it just break your heart? lol
When I read that, I nearly broke down crying. eheh
Another way of looking at it is that he is not Jesus, and as such was unable to bring the dead back to life. As such, the course to take was the one which would rally public opinion behind him, while he made a strong appeal for the nation to relearn to appreciate the value of the lives of the unborn.
He put his our money where his mouth is.
And no amount of money could buy that. The pro-life movement had spent millions for years trying to move public opinion, to little avail.
BTW, a Happy New Year to you and yours.
Forgive my French, Hugh, but B.F.D.
Do you not understand that "pro-lifer" pro-aborts like the Bush's are only too well aware their "vital" prong of population control has been a tad too successful?
Even Russia's got anti-abortion placards IN THEIR SUBWAY CARS.
All well and good to "reduce abortions" ... especially among the more valuable of the labor force and consumers. The industrialized nations' populations are imploding, for Pete's sake.
But it will be cold day in hell before they actually move to renege on the GOP policy that is legal abortion. Ashcroft made that much clear when he said right of the bat that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was not on Bush's agenda.
He nailed open the most profitable of all window of "non-personhood". What isn't crystal clear about that?
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(It's nearly midnight ... Cheers, guy.)
It's about time.....the absense of any real commander in chief for the previous 8 years is what made the U.S. so vulnerable to these new threats.
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