The president is supposed to speak tomorrow about 9/11. It may be a classy tribute, but knowing how the Bush administration works, he will probably allude to anybody who doesn't back him 100 percent as people who "cut and run," "appease Nazis," or whatever stupid catchphrase they come up with this week to demonize their opponents. Just last week, the president surrounded himself with the families of 9/11 victims as he took another step towards secret trials and torture as official U.S. policy. I wonder what the hell has happened?
Midterm elections are a few short weeks from now, and I'm pretty angry at the Federal Government right now. My problems with the current administration ebb and flow like the tide, with emotions ranging from righteous indignation to laughter, simply because I cannot believe some of the things that has come out of the White House. But I'm pretty frustrated with the national Democratic Party, most of whom offer nothing but knee-jerk reactions to administration policy. As bad as the president is, John Kerry proved that you need something more than "I'm not Bush" to inspire the American people. You need to stand for something with a clear message, and in a world ... hell, this nation ... with so much injustice going on, it's a moral crime that you can't find something to stand on.
For all those who want to stay the course in Iraq, know that in four short years, the Taliban is regaining power in Afghanistan, killing more than a 100 U.S. and NATO troops this year, and 92 percent of the world's Opium supply comes from this country. With the White House turning a blind eye, is this what you have in mind for Iraq?
For all those that believe the people of this country are safer and will protect us, remember how slow the administration was in responding to Hurricane Katrina, and remember the dead bodies that littered the streets of one of our nation's biggest cities for weeks.
For all those who remember the name Osama bin Laden, remember that up until this past week, President Bush rarely mentioned him for four years.
The vice president was on Meet the Press today. Tim Russert grilled him pretty hard, but he more or less kept saying he "doesn't buy" news reports and public hearing, and everything is going exactly according to their plan. Yeah.
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I was just watching some of the Concert for 9/11, and it made me sad...for many reasons, but mostly because our government took the unity our nation was feeling in those months after 9/11, and the good will of the rest of the world, and utterly destroyed it. How depressing is that?
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