our ship of state is on the rocks and sinking ! On Dec 30, 8:15 am, wncs <[email protected]> wrote: > This editorial from our local paper this morning made some good points > with some great zingers, too: > ************************** > Forces behind Bush precipitated the nation's decline > > Robert Bonadonna > Guest columnist > > Every now and then, on what I admit are rare occasions, my charitable > and forgiving nature replaces my dominant desire for justice for > miscreants and malefactors. The case in point is the joyous but > overdue goodbyes to President Bush and his team of incompetents and > villains. > > Our once great, powerful and wealthy nation, and our wonderful world, > are on the brink of a long period of atonement for the sins, stupidity > and ineptitude of the greatest assemblage of blunderers in recent > history. > > The replacement team being put together by the incoming president and > his pick of talented and experienced public servants, while providing > promise and hope for the future, is saddled with inherited multiple > messes that will be deeply daunting to clean up. > > Our ship of state that has been foundering in fog and folly for eight > years will be difficult to get back on and even keel, even with the > talents of this exceptional incoming captain and his new crew. > > How did we get into this mess and will the power structure that > perpetrated this political plague learn from or acknowledge their > complicity? > > I have a surprise for you. This fiasco was really not directly the > fault of poor ill-equipped President Bush. He was the puppet of a > power elite that used his name recognition to implement their agenda. > > The evil nucleus of this arrogant assemblage were the neo-cons who > wanted a war, the financial sector who wanted to privatize our > government, and some oil interests who lusted to capitalize on and > control the sources of the black gold. These malefactors are really > the culprits and architects of our present world financial collapse. > > These forces of evil, not poor hapless, manipulated President Bush, > are the source of our present world meltdown. > > When President Bush was nominated in 1999, he put Dick Cheney in > charge of his search for a VP. Unsurprisingly, Cheney could not come > up with a candidate he could recommend more highly than himself. > Together he, Rove and Rumsfeld pulled the puppet strings and President > Bush danced to their terrible tunes. > > George W. Bush's salient lesson and legacy would be that our great > nation must be more careful and critical of the criteria we use to > select the leader of the free world. > > I believe and hope that we have voted in a team that will eventually > be able to repair some of the damages done to our nation, and the > world in the last eight years. It will not be fast or easy, we must > pay close attention and do our part as informed citizens to put the > America back on the course so well charted by our forefathers, who > gave us our blessings of freedom that have benefitted many past and > hopefully future generations of Americans and by example, the peoples > of the world. > > http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008812300302 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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