If it hasn’t been obvious for the past four years (which I can’t believe) it is certainly obvious now. George W. Bush is a liar. As far as I am concerned he has always been a liar. He lied about WMD’s, lied about Iraqi capabilities for delivering them, lied about intelligence reports, and on and on. He wiggles out of this by saying that he and many others believed they had WMD’s. But he can’t deny he is lying about Social Security. When he says the system will be bankrupt in 2042 he has to know that he is lying. So he is deliberately lying and anyone with a brain larger than a grain of wheat has to know that he is lying. So why do we put up with it? What is it about this arrogant twit that allows him to get away with his outrageous lies time after time? I guess the American Public is so accustomed to lying by now that they just don’t pay attention anymore. After all, he isn’t lying about a consensual sexual act between adults. He’s only lying about why thousands upon thousands of innocent people were killed. Now he’s lying about Social Security which only affects several million of us. No big deal I guess.
What I don’t understand is why he is doing this. Why is he spending so much time and energy on Social Security when there are other problems far more urgent and far more serious? It is almost surely the case that he will not be able to privatize (personalize) Social Security. It is virtually a lost cause to begin with. So why? The only conclusion I can come to is that he wants to distract attention away from all of the other problems: the questionable situation in Iraq, the obscene national debt, the rape of the environment, the enrichment of the obscenely wealthy at the expense of the poor, the various scandals of his administration which are already pretty much ignored by the media, preparations for war on Iran, plans for a draft, and on and on virtually ad infinitum. Let’s face it, this is the worst President and the worst Administration in U.S. history. They are demonstrably war criminals. The whole world knows it. And roughly half of the U.S. population seems to think it is just fine. This is sick, a sick society, a sick Presidency, just sick, sick, sick.
Now to add insult to injury we have to put up with a stamp honoring that great moral midget, Ronald Reagan who started this whole sick business. Please let me wake up from this nightmare sooner rather than later.
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I have long been convinced that the one and only event that would bring Bush down is a major sex scandal, and I'm serious about that. I've been watching the "Red State Road Trip", now on it's 10th day and Bush voter after Bush voter say the reason they voted for him is because "he's a Christian". They seem to be completely oblivious about anything else he does. I think that may be because the fundamentalists have been looked at with disbelief for so long that to have the President of the United States state that he is what they are and is one of them means so much to them that they'll stick with him through hell and high water regardless of anything else he says or does...and to hell with the national interests or well-being. And that is truly sad.
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