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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-Commentary: Riding Fear To Victory?
Why do half of all Americans embrace our most incompetent and most reckless president, our most hated president overseas?
By Gerald RellickIf we were truly in the age of reason, if the Enlightenment spawned by the likes of Galileo, Shakespeare, and Newton had really made the impact we like to believe, and if there were justice, then George W. Bush would already have been impeached, tried, and found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors against the people of the United States. He would have been shipped in chains to The Hague to stand trial before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, found guilty, and summarily hanged by the neck until dead. And the evil and vile Dick Cheney would just suddenly disappear--like Jimmy Hoffa.
OK, so this is a little unrealistic. How about Bush�s approval ratings hovering near 2 percent with rioting in the streets? Is that too much to ask as an appropriate reaction to this president?
For those of us who have tried to capture in words the grim reality of George Bush, the man�s �unrelenting and unremitting awfulness,� to use the words of political cartoonist Joe Sacco, I dare say the mood has to be one of frustration when we see the race between Kerry and Bush to be about even at this point. How is it, we ask, that the most incompetent, most reckless president of the modern era, probably the worst president in the history of the Republic, may actually win a second term? Doesn�t everyone realize by now that everything George Bush touches turns rotten? This was true when he was a young man, and it�s true now.
The question is, of course, rhetorical because we know the answer: fear. George Bush�s entire reelection campaign hinges on this one human emotion--and Bush, Karl Rove, and the entire GOP know it. The Republican national convention was all about what Bush & company want Americans to get in the habit of calling the �war on terror.� In his acceptance speech, Bush read through a list of domestic issues like it was a boring grocery list. From then on it was all about terror, terror, terror, and how he is the man to deal with this terror.
But George Bush is also asking the country to forget. Forget that 9/11 happened on his watch and after his administration had been warned in detail by the outgoing Clinton administration of the threat that Al Qaeda posed to the U.S. homeland. Forget that after the attack our commander-in-chief showed himself to be the Barney Fife of lawmen, sitting dazed, stunned, and paralyzed in a Florida schoolroom, waiting for somebody to tell him what to do. Forget that he gave up on Al Qaeda and hurried out of Afghanistan to punch out a weakling middle eastern desert dictator--just to show he could do it. Forget that after three years Osama bin Laden still remains a free man. And if it�s within you, forget that more than 1000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq since George Bush lied to the country and to the world about the need to invade Iraq. They died so George Bush could brag about how tough he is. And in New York last week, it was almost as if this very small man was standing on their coffins just so he could be seen.
At times it is almost too much to bear. As good ol� Charley Brown was fond of saying, �I just can�t stand it.�
Gerald S. Rellick, Ph.D., worked in the defense sector of the aerospace industry. He now teaches in the California Community College system.
Posted Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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