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CAMPAIGN 2008

In The Shadow of Bush

The president has left his party in a precarious state. But the GOP candidates running in the wake of his wreckage can learn much from his failures.

By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK
Jan 28, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 06/27/2008 1:31:57 PM

    Comment: Have you seen the latest? I continue to be amazed by the Bush-Cheney-Rove Republican nerve and tactics. I couldn???t believe that they now had the nerve to use the term ???arrogant??? and try to stick that label on Obama. They constantly demonstrate tactics that are based on the often used Rove principal that it doesn???t have to be logical, it doesn???t have to be real, it doesn???t even have to be honest, just stick with it, be aggressive, be loud, be bold and say it over and over again. If you consider Obama reserve, professional and serious that is fine ??? but if you want a picture of ???arrogance??? then look at Bush .. or Cheney .. or Rove .. or even Delay or Frist; they all have a career based on it. How many times have we seen them boldly and arrogantly practically thumbing their noses at everyone as they do whatever they want and tell the world to take it or leave it. The image comes to mind of Bush strutting instead of walking, smirking instead of smiling, starring down criticism instead of answering and shrugging as he says whatever he wants without really addressing anything and turns his back to strut away, as if to say, ???hey, I???m entitled???. It simply doesn???t get anymore arrogant than that.

  • Posted By: just a regular guy @ 02/02/2008 2:42:37 AM

    Comment: Bush Younger got his revenge for Bush Older and was able to sleep soundly while Saddam went to sleep forever.
    But revenge proved to be not a good virtue. It's again "the economy stupid", and the same last name will clean up the mess of another known last name for that famous quotation.

  • Posted By: just a regular guy @ 02/02/2008 2:34:17 AM

    Comment: I agree w/ chiefnugt. But the DEMs are busy bickering among themselves. 2 yrs before the pres election the campaigning started. Who started it, your guess as good as mine the DEMs. Instead of impeaching and getting Bush out, the're using him as their whipping boy.
    The GOPs have Nixon in the 20th century and now Bush for the 21st century! Nixon was better because nobody died and for Bush, I don't need to mention it. But both were LIARS AND DESERVED IMPEACHMENT.

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 01/31/2008 7:40:32 PM

    Comment: Sole aim of Bush Jr was to take revenge on Saddam Hussein for his attempt to assasinate Bush SR.

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 01/31/2008 7:39:02 PM

    Comment: Bush 2000 win was rigged. Narrow win like rising dictator Kibaki of Kenya.

  • Posted By: chiefnugt @ 01/29/2008 7:37:39 PM

    Comment: I believe the patriotic course is to impeach Bush and Cheney for high crimes against the people of this country. They intentionally misled us into an entirely unnecessary, hugely wasteful and tragic war, throwing away the lives of 4,000 of our honorable soldiers. When will we stand up and tell Bush that enough is enough? When will we summon the courage of the founding fathers and tell Cheney that when you violate the constitution our country is founded upon, there are consequences?

    • Posted By: just a regular guy @ 02/02/2008 02:56:59

      Comment: You're right chiefnugt, but the Dems are busy bickering among themselves! Imagine! 2yrs before the pres election, the campaign already has started. Who started it? Your guess is as good as mine the Dems. So instead of impeaching and getting Bush out, they used him as their whipping boy.

  • Posted By: chiefnugt @ 01/29/2008 7:33:43 PM

    Comment: I believe the most patriotic thing to do is to impeach Bush and Cheney for high crimes against the people of this country. It's not just that I don't like them - it's that they intentionally misled us into an unnecessary, hugely expensive and tragic war, causing the loss of 4,000 of our courageous soldiers. If Bush and Cheney had 1/100th of the honor and patriotism our soldiers do, they'd resign. But they don't, so their reign of terror over this country continues. When will we find the nerve to stand up to these two rogues, and tell them we won't stand for anyone trampling on the constitution?

    • Posted By: just a regular guy @ 02/02/2008 02:04:33

      Comment: You're right! but the Dems are bickering among themselves. The GOPs, what do you expect, history repeats itself. 20th century they got Nixon, 21st century they got Bush. But it was at home, nobody died, and was cheaper w/ Nixon. For Bush, it was half way around the world, some are dying, and he's spending money this country don't have.
      Imagine this, US' GNP is $14 trillion, debt is $9 trillion. A credit card company won't even lend our gov't.

  • Posted By: mjcrew9 @ 01/28/2008 10:25:11 AM

    Comment: I agree with this person, eddiewhere, we need to get back to our roots, the Constitution.
    if you do not agree with the Constitution, then you are communists and you should move there,
    When people fear their Government it is called tyranny, When Government fears the people it is called FREEDOM.
    WAKE UP AMERICA.

  • Posted By: CassandraSays @ 01/25/2008 2:00:58 PM

    Comment: t9900:

    Gee Whillikers. If you believe there are WMDs hidden somewhere in Iraq, aren't you worried? If the U.S. has stopped looking for them, who might find them? If you think Saddam was tight with al Q'aeda, might he not have passed on the locations? Scary thoughts.

  • Posted By: allmankindminusone @ 01/25/2008 1:05:27 AM

    Comment: Bush is a character straight out of Conrad. From "The Secret Sharer": from Conrad's The Secret Sharer:

    "I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly."

    We're all heroes in our own stories. Sadly, external realities are rarely able to puncture the delusion.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/24/2008 1:19:55 AM

    Comment: "Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800. ME 10:167
    "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [X Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson: National Bank Opinion, 1791. ME 3:146

    We have been fooled by our own government and there is no way any Republican is going to win this election. THE Middle class has had it with all this Bin LADEN terrorist crap. WE are now scared of our own government more than we are of the terrorist because the decisions this government is making on our behalf is not in our best interests and it is killing us. The government is now dominating our civil liberties. They are giving the states millions for Real ID Cards. This is just the start of government intrusion. Combine this with the misuse of the Patriot Act and the future Plans of insurance comPanies and corporations to have full access to our personal records and we have a real crisis.
    Credit Card companies have already started selling and sharing our personal information with the private sector. We really have to wake up and protect our constitution it is all we have to defend ourselves against interests that become too rich and powerful in this country. The government keeps expanding and is being predominantly controlled by special interest and lobbyist. The middle class is being weakened and our civil liberties are being threatened. Real ID Cards will not make "us safer" infacat terrorists can obtain fake ones and move about freely. The American people did not vote on Real ID Cards, we need a vote. Our constitution would have to be ammended in order for Real ID's to become legal. I do not know what has happened in Washington but it is getting out of hand. They know what they are doing is unconstitutional so they are trying to bribe the states by offering them money. I hope every state agrees with me and Prevents the federal govenment from imPosing and unconstitutional law. If the states allow the government to do this then they would have set a bad Precedent that could lead to further government violations.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/23/2008 10:53:47 PM

    Comment: Yesterday, eartlink.net submitted an article on a study conducted by Center for Public Integrity.
    This organization ???counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.???

    Aren???t there laws forbidding citizens from lying to Congress? Didn???t the Republicans launch an impeachment against Bill Clinton for ???lying??? about some sleazy two-bit affair? Bush and his entire Administration either need to be impeached or tried for war crimes. Maybe we should send the whole crew to the Hague. Yet not one Republican has spoken up about this. Every Republican is guilty of collaborating in these heinous crimes and the first step in cleaning up the mess in Iraq is cleaning up our own house. We need impeachment proceedings immediately. And we need to sweep every Republican out of office.

    P.S. Why didn???t Newsweek cover this report?

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/24/2008 11:51:03

      Comment: Proof why you can't call Republicans fascists above.
      And to answer your question, Newsweek probably didn't cover the story becuase you cannot prove Saddam wasn't aiding terrorists or if Iraq had WMDs. There are parts of Iraq we have not yet searched and the possibility that they were smuggled into Iran or Syria is soem what high. Just because we didn't dind any doesn't mean they are not there or were not there. Before you try to wipe out your opposition like a dictatorship, make sure you are completly sure. Oh and learn what the heck a Republican is and what they stand for you ignorant, intolerant, unindependent fool.

      • Posted By: kunino @ 01/25/2008 20:36:30

        Comment: T9900's??ou cannot prove" is an odd comment.

        The way things work is that people who make accusations are those responsible for proving them.

        But according to T9900, no matter how wild the comment is, it's somebody else's job to proive that it's wrong. No need to justify it with fact.

        Nobody every proved that Saddam Hussein wasn't a stamp collector, either, but this doesn't mean he was one.

        If T9900 has any point to make, it's that the full power of the United States, military, intelligence, all other resources, was not competent to establish whether the Bush accusations were right or wrong. That to practical effect means they were wrong.

  • Posted By: buddhabman @ 01/23/2008 6:55:03 PM

    Comment: If Bush had not invaded Iraq, and kept his eye on Osama Bin Laden, the GOP would not be in the mess they are in. There party is in danger of becoming irrelevant. The 20 years of cumulative efforts to control Congress and then the White House have been wiped out by W. The policies of Conservatism, the thought of the Republican party as the party of Defense and the Military have been debunked. The image of the Republican party as effective business like leaders is destroyed. This grand plan the Democratization of Iraq, created as a cover for Bush family honor is a real American political tragedy. It is time for a new way, a new generation of leadership.

    Obama 08.

  • Posted By: Be- Real @ 01/23/2008 5:31:05 PM

    Comment: If Bush could serve another term , the fruits of his policies will show. At times results need tough talk. He has made the U.S gain some bargaining power in Global politics. Look at the response he gets in places like Bahrain, UAE, Georgia etc. I mean because he showed the world that the U.S> are no pushovers, when he motivates for a Palestinian State he is taken seriously. If Bill Clinton had the same kind of authority at Camp David with Yasser Arafat then things may have been different. The Iraq adventure may seem futile but in long term the fruits will show. I mean who would have thought 20 years after the Vietnam War an American president would be given such a warm reception in Hanoi, the Vietnamese economy is booming big time.. A republican administration in 2009 by someone as ascertive like Mitt Romney will enable the fruits of the U.S's Global influence

  • Posted By: cookie5265 @ 01/23/2008 5:29:24 PM

    Comment: Bush is stupid. If he were a smart man, Iraq would have been won, pacified and peaceful by now. If Bush were a good leader, the American people would have been united by now to achieve the common good of the entire country, America would be more respected, the American economy would have been more robust and able to compete, the value of the dollar would be higher or at least on par with the euro. Bush is stupid and a disgrace to America

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/23/2008 19:46:54

      Comment: No, no matter who would be President, Iraq would not have been pacified and peaceful yet. When you try to stabalize a country full of people who want to kill themselves and as many of us as possible, excpect to be in that country a long time.

  • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/23/2008 2:16:50 PM

    Comment: No he isn't. Nixon, Reagon, Lincoln, and several of our first Presidents were the best (FDR too if you leave out his pathetic socialist programs). Bush is, at this time, not a good President however that is until the long term effects of his terms begin to show. I'd say the Presidents leading up to the Civil War and Carter were the worst.

  • Posted By: ADiddy @ 01/23/2008 11:31:59 AM

    Comment: President Bush is the second greatest President EVER, after President Ronald Reagan. Any of the disgruntled who choose to disenfranchise themselves from the American dream that do not believe this can simply look it up.

  • Posted By: ADiddy @ 01/23/2008 11:30:59 AM

    Comment: President Bush is the second greatest President EVER, after President Ronald Reagan. Any of the disgruntled who choose to disenfranchise themselves from the American dream that do not believe this can simply look it up.

  • Posted By: peace and love @ 01/23/2008 11:15:02 AM

    Comment: Worst president EVER. There is no aspect of our country that he has not destroyed. The economy, the war, our trust of government, our reputation to the world, etc. He's ruined it all and he lied to us in addition!!!.

    And by the way, to those who voted not once but twice for this loser, thanks a lot.

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/23/2008 14:08:27

      Comment: Please provide us with some proof that Bush every aspect of this country? Or did you just here the media or someone else say this?
      And thanks a lot to those voted for Bush. Kerrey and Gore would not be good Presidents. Infact thats why many people voted for Bush. It's called picking the lessor of two evils or in this case who wouldn't be as bad as President.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/23/2008 1:41:21 AM

    Comment: Listen to Bush's upcoming state of the union address. Look and listen carefully. Is he avoiding detail, is he camaflouging his real agenda. Can he really make you believe that he will leave no child behind again, How many times can one nation be foolded. Think about all the bankrupt people sitting at home, those in debt, those without healthcare, and unable to afford education watching his speech. Their probably wondering how they could have been suckered into voting for this guy.They did not listen and we all know many of them voted for Bush in two thoudand four. OBAMA/.Hillary for president.
    WHY CAN'T WE SEE THAT THE PeoPle Profiting from the war are haPPy with the status quo. WHo are these PeoPle,
    Private Contrators who lobbied the RePublican adminstration
    Cheney/ Halliburton who Provided billion dollar contracts to selected firms.
    These caPitalists decided to unite and Profit in Iraq, Build a new economy in Iraq where the oil comPainies, caPitalists that suPPort the Bush Administration, War Profiteers and other Private comPanies could all make Billions at the tax Payers exPense. HERE"S THE proof, keep in mind this is just the tip ot the ice berg

    Cheney's stock options which were worth $241,498 a year ago, are now valued at more than $8 million-- for an increase of 3,281% . Cheney has pledged to give the proceeds to charity. Cheney continues to receive a deferred salary from the Halliburton. He was paid $205,298 in 2001; $162,392 in 2002; $178,437 in 2003; and $194,852 in 2004.

    Halliburton, has already raked in more than $10 billion for work in Iraq, and was handed some of the first Katrina contracts. The company has been criticized by auditors for its handling of no-bid contacts in Iraq, and there have been numerous allegations of over charging for services. Auditors found the firm marked up meal prices for troops and inflated gas prices in a deal with a Kuwaiti supplier. The company also built the American prison at Guantanamo Bay. "It is unseemly for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his Administration funnels billions of dollars to it. Lautenberg???
    They even "pimped" our troops. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
    Do you think Bush and Cheney care that we are spending billions in IRAQ, NO. THis is why they hated the CLINTONS. THE CLINTON"S ACTUALLY USED TAX payer money to help the middle class and all AMERICANS.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/23/2008 1:40:54 AM

    Comment: "Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800. ME 10:167
    "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [X Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson: National Bank Opinion, 1791. ME 3:146

    We have been fooled by our own government and there is no way any Republican is going to win this election. THE Middle class has had it with all this Bin LADEN terrorist crap. WE are now scared of our own government more than we are of the terrorist because the decisions this government is making on our behalf is not in our best interests and it is killing us. The government is now dominating our civil liberties. They are giving the states millions for Real ID Cards. This is just the start of government intrusion. Combine this with the misuse of the Patriot Act and the future Plans of insurance comPanies and corporations to have full access to our personal records and we have a real crisis.
    Credit Card companies have already started selling and sharing our personal information with the private sector. We really have to wake up and protect our constitution it is all we have to defend ourselves against interests that become too rich and powerful in this country. The government keeps expanding and is being predominantly controlled by special interest and lobbyist. The middle class is being weakened and our civil liberties are being threatened. Real ID Cards will not make "us safer" infacat terrorists can obtain fake ones and move about freely. The American people did not vote on Real ID Cards, we need a vote. Our constitution would have to be ammended in order for Real ID's to become legal. I do not know what has happened in Washington but it is getting out of hand. They know what they are doing is unconstitutional so they are trying to bribe the states by offering them money. I hope every state agrees with me and Prevents the federal govenment from imPosing and unconstitutional law. If the states allow the government to do this then they would have set a bad Precedent that could lead to further government violations.

  • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/22/2008 10:05:33 PM

    Comment: Continueing from my above comment...
    On to the economy, the pres cannot be held accountable for economic troubles. Not everything is the presidents fault. Weather, other countries, consumer spending, consumer attitude... All these things affect the economy. Most of our current economic problems are probably due to the average American citizen. Plus. Going back to the long term point, these problems could be the cause of Clinton's, Reagons, or even FDR's administration. And on to Katrina. NO was the scummiest city of this nation has ever seen. Just look now, football is more important to them than repairing the levees or the poor sections. Its the states and cities incompetence that caused the problems, not race (I feel sorry for MLK. His dream was for minorities to justify their actions and get out of things by playing the race card) or Bush. For those who complain about the Federals governments powers, do not blame Bush for Katrina.
    Now back on to the issue at hand. One of the good things about Bush's Administration is that it marks the end of Bush style Republicans. McCain, Huckabee, and Hunter would be very good Presidents. Paul would do a pretty good job too, but needs to slow down a bit on the change. He wants to bring change too fast while the others would bring it at a slower pace. I'm kind of hoping McCain or Huckabee puts Hunter on as their ballot as vice since Hunter has no chance of winning the Repub nomination.
    Now this is something I do not understand; Why do people compare Republicans to fascists or say religious candidates want to turn the country into a theocracy and give no facts to back that stuff up? I always wondered. Is it lack of logic, too much media, or ignorance towards the Republican ideology?
    To end my extremely long comment, yes I am a conservative and a Christian and no I am not a Bush supporter and I have nothing against them. Yes I know I have bad spelling and grammar and I purposely didn't read over this or use spell check. 1) it's not that important and 2) if comment on my mistakes then it tells me that you didn't read my comment and thus are a ignorant fool.
    Do some reaserch on the Republican Party, which means don't look at wiki or a few sources in the front. The deeper you dig, the farther you get from biases and lies. Or look at two diffeerent sources that are extremly opposite (like Fox and well Newsweek) on viewpoints and find the truth by reserching the things being contested. For example if one source says Obama is a Muslim and one says he's not, then research if he really is or not (and you should know he isn't one)

  • Posted By: t9900 @ 01/22/2008 10:04:30 PM

    Comment: On this site these are the kind of comments I'd expect. Intolerant ignorance of Republicans, Conservatives or US political history. Please if you know nothing of history or Republicans than do not comment on subjects including them.
    First off this is a Republic not a Democracy. Its been this way since the beginning. They are completely different. Now that you learned something very basic, let me tell you that throughout history, Presidents have been criticized (though not as much as the scums are doing today) and the good things of their administration have not been figured out until their term is over, which leads to another point, the positive points of most things are not seen until the long run (cough Iraq War). Bush 's Administration may turn out better in the long run than you think. Calling it a failure now only shows your ignorance. Reagan was created and had a low popularity but he was one of our best Presidents.
    You know I find it funny, there are so many people criticize Bush but that's all they do. Bush bashing is the liberals favorite hobby. If all you're going to do is b*tch, then include your failed Congress, with their 3 only achievements: complaining about Bush, threatening to cut funds for troops for popularity (ending the Iraq War), and making crappy badly written bills to expand CHIP and then saying Repubs hate poor children (if you can read, read them before commenting about those vetoes).

  • Posted By: rosalind1667 @ 01/22/2008 4:43:29 PM

    Comment: Bush is a total failure and without a doubt the single worst President in American history - and his disgrace is the shame of the entire Republican party. Simply put, these fools don't deserve to run the country again for at least an entire generation. They have embarassed us all!

  • Posted By: KCgirl @ 01/22/2008 11:35:14 AM

    Comment: So George Bush is a lot smarter than I think? What a laugh!! He may not care what many people think of him, however it is now a FACT that he has led this country down a horrible path throughout his presidency. And Iraq is just the tip of the iceberg! It's not the fact that he decided to invade, it's how he went about it. It's the fact that the tax break he issued before 09/11 depleted our resources for this quagmire we're now in. It's the fact that AFTER 09/11, interests rates were lowered so much the banks found shady ways to make money, and now the housing market is in crisis mode. It was Katrina, it was ruining foreign relations, it is stubborness and relying on his "gut" rather than sound advice that makes him a horrible president! I'm not a Democrat, but I can still see that this cowboy president of ours has done little to no good for this country.

  • Posted By: KCgirl @ 01/22/2008 11:33:58 AM

    Comment: So George Bush is a lot smarter than I think? What a laugh!! He may not care what many people think of him, however it is now a FACT that he has led this country down a horrible path throughout his presidency. And Iraq is just the tip of the iceberg! It's not the fact that he decided to invade, it's how he went about it. It's the fact that the tax break he issued before 09/11 depleted our resources for this quagmire we're now in. It's the fact that AFTER 09/11, interests rates were lowered so much the banks found shady ways to make money, and now the housing market is in crisis mode. It was Katrina, it was ruining foreign relations, it is stubborness and relying on his "gut" rather than sound advice that makes him a horrible president! I'm not a Democrat, but I can still see that this cowboy president of ours has done little to no good for this country.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 01/22/2008 3:58:34 AM

    Comment: Ok many of you still blame Bush for everything. But about the campaign contributors, lobbyists, policy makers, intelligensia and other influential parties (like other world leadrers) who also have direct influence on Bush's decision making? Don't you think that his hands are tight and he was forced to make most of the decision? Why put the blame on Bush alone? He may just be a puppet for a group of people!

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:22:24 AM

    Comment: Since we are commemorating Dr. King, let???s see how Bush and his wanna be successors measure up to Dr.King???s view on leadership.
    ???Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
    On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And the expedience comes along ad asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question is it popular? Conscience asks the question - is it right?..There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. (From ???Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution.???)
    Rather than showing leadership, the GOP panders to fear and hatred. Right now they are busy smearing each other - Once a candidate is chosen, they???ll smear their opponents.
    In reviewing what Dr King believed, I can???t help thinking that Bush and his cronies are really pathetic excuses for human beings. The same applies for all his wannabe successors. While various GOP contenders may quote Dr. King, they have no interest in really implementing Dr. King???s dream. I also firmly believe that if we made Dr. King???s ideals the basis of our society, we wouldn???t need to worry about fighting terrorism. The would-be terrorists would want to be like us. We really need a revolution in this country - the revolution of values as described by Dr. Martin Luther KIng.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:19:21 AM

    Comment: The GOP is Our is obsessed with power. Of all the thinkers in human history, no one defines power better than Dr. Martin Luther King???
    ??? There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
    It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was the same misinterpretation of power that induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in that name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we???ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands in the way of love.???
    How does the GOP measure up to this ideal? Their only reason for power is bully the rest of the world and to enrich the top `1%. No body else counts.



  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:17:41 AM

    Comment: Since we are celebrating Martin Luther King???s birthday, let???s compare what the Republicans believe with what Martin Luther King said about working people:
    ??? America, the richest and most powerful nation in the word, can
    well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to prevent us from paying adequate wages to schoolteachers, social workers, and other servants of the public to ensure that we have the best available personnel in these positions which are charged with the responsibility of guiding our future generations. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker. laundry worker, maid, or day laborer. There is nothing except short- sightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum - and liveable - income to every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from remodeling a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into brotherhood. (From ???Where do we go from here????)
    Is there any similarity with what Bush has implement and what Dr. King described? Hardly. Nor has any one in the GOP even addressed these issues

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:15:33 AM

    Comment: Both Bush and the GOP are full of chatter about the wonders of the global economy. Since today is Martin Luther King Day, we should examine what Dr King was particularly prescient about globalization:
    ???A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs with reduced incomes as a result of automation while the profits of employers remain intact, and say ???This is not just.??? It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalist of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of these countries and say,???This is not just.???
    ... A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war,???This way of settling differences is not just.???
    While GOP's financial supporters love trade deals with Third World Countries, they seem to care little about the impact of these trade deals on the Third World. Perhaps they should.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:13:08 AM

    Comment: A large part of the GOP???s core supporeters seems fixed on the final judgment which supposedly is near at hand. Since today is Martin Luther King Day, they should heed what Dr. King said about the way God will our nation.
    ???One Day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will talk in terms of things we have done. Yes, we will be able to say we built gargantuan bridges to span the seas, we built gigantic building to kiss the skies. Yes, we made our submarines to penetrate the oceanic depths. We brought into being many other things with our scientific and technological power.
    It seems to me I hear the God of history saying, ???That was not enough! But I was hungry and ye fed me not. I was naked and ye clothed me not. I was devoid of a decent sanitary house to live in and ye provided no shelter for me. And consequently, you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness. If ye do it to the least of these, my brethren, ye do it until me.??? That???s the question facing America today. (From the speech, ???Remaining Awake through a Social Revolution.???)
    Does any one in the GOP care about these core values?

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:12:09 AM

    Comment: Religion is a constant political issue. In fact, the Republicans affixed the cross of Jesus to the speaker???s podium at the 2004 Republican convention to show what faith they favored. Let???s see how Republican practices square with what Martin Luther King had to say.
    ???Dives didn???t go to Hell because he was rich; Dives didn???t realize that his wealth was his opportunity. It was his opportunity to bridge the gulf that separated him from his brother, Lazarus. Dives went to hell because he passed by Lazarus every day and never really saw him. He went to hell because he allowed his brother to become invisible. Dives went to hell because he maximized the minimum and minimized the maximum. Indeed Dives went to hell because he sought to be a conscientious objector in the war against poverty. (From ???Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution.???)
    The Republicans have turned the war against poverty into a war against the poor. For all their religiosity, do they honestly believe that their policies are endorsed by Jesus?

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:10:29 AM

    Comment: The prevailing political attitude of the GOP is the glorification of greed and selfishness. Since today is Martin Luther King Day, let???s see what Martin Luther King had to say about that attitude;
    ???All life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality: tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no many can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made. (Sermon.. ???The American Dream.???)
    There???s nothing in Republican rhetoric that says anything about these ideals.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/22/2008 12:08:59 AM

    Comment: Since today is Martin Luther King Day, let???s compare Bush and his current crop of wanna-be successors with the words of Dr. King. Here???s one of my favorites/
    ??? I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other centered men can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the alters of God and be crowned triumphant over war and blood shed, and nonviolent redemptive good will shall proclaim the rule of the land..??? (From the ??? Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.???)
    Does any one in the GOP plan to implement this idea. I don???t think so.


  • Posted By: BraveNewWorld @ 01/21/2008 11:48:10 PM

    Comment: Comparing Bush to Buchanan is an insult to Buchanan.

  • Posted By: happyfb88 @ 01/21/2008 10:15:23 PM

    Comment: tc125231,

    Your response is a perfect example of why our country is so fratured right now. On the whole, this article was very balanced - the authors were actually quite critical of Bush and ended the piece with a negative comment about him. Instead of focuing on the balanced aspects of this article, or the call for the elimination of the partisanship that is poisoning Washington, you jump all over the one positive thing the authors said about Bush. Our country will never heal if people are so focused on their hatred for people on the other side that they ignore pleas for unity and working together.

  • Posted By: tc125231 @ 01/21/2008 10:06:47 PM

    Comment: The idea that W. has experienced great personal growth unreported in the press is absurd. Would that be from his proactive handling of the mortgage meltdown? His brilliant Middle East trip which clearly moved the Israel-Palestinian peace accord forward by negative five feet? His grasp that our standard of living is dependent on our skills, in a country without manufacturing, and 60% of our children don't graduate from college? How about an actual plan to get us off foreign oil?

    None of these? Did you mean some other Bush --or perhaps you were referring to improvements in his mountain biking?

    Pathetic.

  • Posted By: rowdy @ 01/21/2008 7:49:06 PM

    Comment: From the very beginning I didn't approve of the war. I thought it was a big mistake do to the history of the middle east. As a responsible citizen I now stand behind the president in his choice not to pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be an embarrasment to the whole country. The hatred that has prompted the terrorrist to such evil attacks against the U.S. as not disappeared. In fact it has intensified. They are not going to go away anytime soon. Putting a new president in office who feels that stopping the war is the best thing we can do for our country, would be a bigger mistake. We would not only endanger our people but would also leave Afghanistan and Iraq in a very defenseless state with no chance to stand against the people who oppress them.

  • Posted By: asminto @ 01/21/2008 7:10:50 PM

    Comment: I find it amusing when ever any one mentions the Clintons it always comes down to the affair that rocked the White House. Oh My! He had an affair! He is the only man alive to do that! For sure, the only President to do that! Come on people, if that is the best you can come up with you need better material. Why is it that people are so frightened of a women becoming President. Afraid she might do a better job? Hillary deserves the opportunity to do a better job.

  • Posted By: FREE AND THE BRAVE @ 01/21/2008 6:26:16 PM

    Comment: What short memories we all have.This country already had " Billary",in office. Ole slick Willie did a lot for his cronies, but notmuch for us. He was a little "preoccupied"to deal with foreign affairs.On to the MLK flap between Hillary and Obama, when King was preaching, Hillary was a "Goldwater girl", REPUBLICAN. He lost to LBJ because he was for SEGREGATION The Clintons are LIARS! The other front runner- Barack Hussein Obama. How many Americans do you know with a name like that? The FACT he stood facing away from everyone else, arms folded defiantly,makes me a veteran, sick to my stomach. Reguarding his record as a senator,hmmm... he did vote "present" a lot. That'sreally taking a stand! People, this country is heading for disaster. The major banks selling their interests in foreign countries, for one. The reason McCain didn't make it in 2000 was due to the very effective mudslinging campaign by Bush. If McCain had been elected, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. McCain has HONOR, COURAGE, and a sense of DUTY, you can't understand unless you've been in the military.He is also willing and able to cross party lines to get the job done! McCain, for president. The one true LEADER!

    • Posted By: rail60 @ 01/21/2008 18:52:42

      Comment: I agree, McCain is a true patriot and a man that has served this country honorably his entire life. So, what does it mean when the Republican Party nominates this slightly retarded Connecticut prepschool chearleader over a true American hero, like McCain? Does it mean we have Oligarchs pulling the strings? I don't know. What I do know is that things aren't right when a man with Dubyas background gets elected President of the United States.

      • Posted By: Braes @ 01/22/2008 16:39:11

        Comment: Selected, hardly elected. As much scum as dumb.
        Request a paper ballot, Vote.
        The Axis of Evil? Monopolists, Religious Bigots, and Constitutional Revisionists.

  • Posted By: Cercerned About Demoicracy's Future @ 01/21/2008 6:17:18 PM

    Comment: It's was not merely George W. Bush's arrogance that is "hurting" the Republican hegemony. It is the lock-step, unwavering partisan manner by which Republicans suppored every misguided and disastrous policy of GWB! This Administration has left NO sphere of public policy undamaged - not to mention the damange to our Constitution and the rule of law! - and he was able to achieve this dubious distinction ONLY with the blind loyalty of Republican legislators. The Republican hegemony achieved a narrowing of the parameters of the possible, reducing the country to helplessly watching as they sold us out to every special interest, lied us into a bloody and unending war, and they actually institutionalized the practice of torure! - and demeaned such basics as habeas corpus. A pox on your house. You deserve to go into exile until you learn that your ONLY purpose is to serve the American people - BEFORE your party, and absolutely before "your" President!

  • Posted By: daylight @ 01/21/2008 3:33:17 PM

    Comment: Another article where the media makes McCain look better than everyone else (IN THEIR EYES). Please anyone for presedent BUT McCain!!

  • Posted By: sheridan44 @ 01/21/2008 3:27:47 PM

    Comment: History will not be kind to George W. Bush. His arrogance and self-righteousness have proved disastrous to this country. The next president will have his/her hands full just trying to undo the damage W. has caused.

    • Posted By: Trout @ 01/21/2008 15:58:47

      Comment: "arrogance and self-righteousness" - descriptions that were also used for people like Churchhill, Rosevelt, Reagan, Lincoln, John Adams, and MLK. I think Bush is in good company.

      • Posted By: rail60 @ 01/21/2008 19:04:41

        Comment: Comparing "more better" and "missunderestimate" Dubya with Abraham Lincoln, is like comparing Mother Teresa of Calcutta with Adolf Hitler. In Lincoln you have one our most intellegent Presidents, while in Dubya, you have one of our dumber if not dumbest President. You only have to listen to the retard one time to figure this out.

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 01/21/2008 17:47:32

        Comment: Way to go trout! You put my own true feelings into perfect words-Way to go man!

        • Posted By: smyers16 @ 01/22/2008 10:17:55

          Comment: Why the Hatred? Is it because you perceive a man to ba a "Retard" and yet he has don alot more with his life than you have done with yours? You may believe he is stupid, but he just smiles and goes on. Your hatred defines who YOU are not who G. W. Bush is. I have a daughter with Autism and the word "retard" offends me. However, I don't hate you because of your ignorance. You are an American and have the right to say and do that which you choose. Face it! G. W. Bush has been laughing at the Dems all along. He got what he wanted and ticked you guys off in the process. You underestimate him. He's a lot smarter than you think.
          Besides, have you seen the approval polls for Congress? They are considerably LOWER than Bush's. Dems, If we must let Clinton's affair go, lay off the Retard Rhetoric.

          • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 01/22/2008 11:29:48

            Comment: You must let Clinton's affair go because his sex life is none of your business!!! A dumb president is a lot worse than one who has an affair! Clinton's affair didn't affect me at all, but this dumb president has created so many problems that me and my great grand children will be paying for! I'd rather have a president who is human than this bumbling idiot. The president IS NOT the moral authority - YOU ARE, to your own children.

            Let's all not forget Kennedy people. It was perfectly OK when he was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.....that would've been like Reagan having an affair with Madonna in the 80's. Get your minds out of our bedrooms.

            • Posted By: smyers16 @ 01/22/2008 12:32:55

              Comment: Obviously, you missed the point. Lay off the RETARD rhetoric. Those of us with special needs children find it offensive.

  • Posted By: racollin @ 01/21/2008 3:02:43 PM

    Comment: This was one of the most insightful and lucid articles I've read regarding the Bush Presidency. It's too bad that these thoughts and ideas (most of which have been glaringly obvious to the 'average American' for years) weren't heeded by the Republican leadership sooner. The President's complete disregard for any view other than his own (or of his ulltra-right-wing cronies) has slowly eroded his support with Moderate Republicans and has, in fact, moved many into the Democratic camp.
    The author's observation that the Democrats continually demonstrate the uncanny ability to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory is spot on. But this ability is not relegated to the Democrats. The Republicans have the same capacity. The continuous "my country right or wrong" refrain heard from the President's office and much of the Republican leadership has had the same effect of ailenating the moderate middle as did the Democrats' misguided belief that most Americans were Left Wing Liberals during the '60's and 70's.
    The fact is that we are a country of Centrists. The bulk of the American voting populace doesn't want either extreme. We want Statesmen; politicians who can put the best interests of the counrty first and the interests of their Party second (as impossible as this may sound). The country is Hungry for Statesmanship, and I believe that the candidate that most epitomizes this single attribute will be the winner in the up-coming election. If the Republicans have any hope of overcoming the huge hill that the current President has given them to climb, it will be their focus on this one, key attribute that must be brought to the fore.
    Thank you for an excellent article. It gives voice to much of the frustration and confusiton that many Republicans have been feeling for some time. I hope the Republican candidates read it!

  • Posted By: liddi_40 @ 01/21/2008 2:37:39 PM

    Comment: Anyone concerned this vote may divide North and South again in the USA?

    • Posted By: LSD4u2 @ 01/21/2008 20:49:06

      Comment: Where has your head been, up where the sun don't shine? The North and the South has always been divided.

  • Posted By: Displaced Democrat @ 01/21/2008 2:26:13 PM

    Comment: I Do Not Think Anyone In Washington is Listening to the Cry Of The People, the immigration issue is one thing We Faced With a Border Since 1492, when we arrived the Indians Were trying to Protect their Border, then Someone offered Some Trinkets for their Land, some of the cheifs accepted and was forced to move, others tried to fight and was sent to a land no-one wanted until we found oil then Greed Wanted it Back, Remember What goes Around Comes Around and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN REVERSE What Has Happened, Washington Paid Big Business to Leave America and while they Prosper the People who Purchase Most of their Products are Left with a low paying or No Job. Until America Wakes Up We can Only get worse, The News Media is Also Thinking of who does the best for them, real Soon People can not Afford Them or their Reasons. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! We Need Help America before WW-2, was Self supporting Now we can not Survive on our Own.. Please Write your Elected Official about Your Concerns. Please..

    • Posted By: liddi_40 @ 01/21/2008 14:32:43

      Comment: i think its worth mentioning that China is using an incredible amount of Oil. Thanks to US. No wonder supply is strained.

  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 01/21/2008 2:24:56 PM

    Comment: And: "The heart of the matter is not the issue of prayer in schools or even the content of the rest of the right-wing prorgram which has been labeled as "family values." It is in the uses of the program as a weapon of attack. It evokes memories and resonances in the collective conscious of Jews. In his heyday, the tsar of Russia oppressed the Jews and the urban poor, escaping their wrath by encouraging the Russian Orthodox Church to rise against the Jews with the charge of "Christ killers." Because the tsar was the head of the church, and, therefore, the 'great father' of the poor, they were thus induced to forget about their need for bread by being fed the circus of a pogrom. Jews are hearing the first sounds of such a connection, as terrifying as an
    alarm bell in the night, in the insistence by right-wingers that the supposed destruction of family values in America is the fault of the liberals. The conservatives have thrown an attack on multiculturalism into the
    mix to position themselves as defenders of traditional European civilization against the liberal commitment to multiculturalism. This makes most Jews uncomfortable, and even nervous. The conservative vision of American culture says to us that our Jewish heritage is outside the canon dominated by the writings of ancient Greeks and medieval and modern Christians. The rich will get richer through lowered taxes in revival of "trickle down" economics, and the sinking middleclass will be told that punishing unwed mothers will satisfy their hungers. The move from crying out that liberalism, and not injustice, is the enemy to shouting that the Jew, the outsider, is responsible for that injustice is a possibility that now seems nearer
    to the horizon."

  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 01/21/2008 2:24:31 PM

    Comment: an excerpt from Reform Judaism magazine of Spring 1995, Arthur Hertzberg, God bless his Soul, responds to the "Republican Revolution" and "Contract With America" of the 1994 election, and answers the question, "Should Jews Fear the Conservative Victory" as follows:"Feudal kings and princes, and the rich bourgeois of medieval and early modern free cities took turns in deflecting the angers of the poor on
    the Jews. Late in the nineteenth century, the tsarist regime in Russia bought time and delayed revolution by offering up the Jews to the angry muzhiks as the objects of pogroms. The rich in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's were pleased that the motives in National Socialism, which reflected the anger of the poor at their misery during the inflation of the 1920's, were directed not at them but at the Jews. Many plutocrats in Germany indulged and helped finance the Nazis. And in America, the most virulent anti-Semitism occurred in the 1930's during the Great Depression. It has waned in the last half century, as more inclusive America has woven a safety net for the poor. We are now living a moment in American history when high-tech jobs are
    more available, but less secure, a time when opportunity for blue collar workers is shrinking irreversibly. Not so very subtly, right-wing ideologues are already deflecting these angers at scapegoats - the blacks and the poor - suggesting that the chronic unemployed, recent (il)legal) immigrants, and welfare mothers are destroying the moral fabric of society and, because of their supposed innate intellectual inferiority, are undermining our nation's economic future. If the social safety net that was constructed in the last half century
    is removed, a violent reaction will follow and cities will become even less safe than they are today. It will no longer be enough to blame the liberals; Jews will become the prime scapegoat."

  • Posted By: diena @ 01/21/2008 2:23:17 PM

    Comment: PRESIDENT BUSH THE BEST EVER PRESIDENT AMERICA HAS HAD ON THE LAST 100 YEARS! it will take a very long time for USA to have another President with his courageous drive, decisive, will and elegance! he doesn???t criticize his detractors nor call them bad names, he has a rare refined class and knows when and what to say during these very trying times of ours. It was the Clinton's who were sleeping around...while Bin Laden was planning his evil deeds, not BUSH. Please, do not elect these Clinton's to the White House, it will be a terrible mistake...and America will regret it so much ...to a no returning point. Same apply to the Obama's, Osama's...Hussein's or not !

    • Posted By: asminto @ 01/21/2008 19:02:32

      Comment: Have you been living under a rock for the last seven years? Bush has systematically turned the US into the laughing stock of the world. Our dollar isn't worth diddly, jobs that are worth having are gone, we are at war with troops dying for no good reason, gas prices are a joke and in turn are raising the prices of everything else. Name me one good thing he did. Just one.

      • Posted By: rosalind1667 @ 01/22/2008 16:50:36

        Comment: So basically, your entire irrational love of Bush is based on your irrational hate of Clinton? Good luck with that, pal!

    • Posted By: asminto @ 01/21/2008 18:50:47

      Comment: Where have you been for the last 7 years? Bush will go down in the books as the worst president this country has ever had. Go Hillary!!! May your wisdom restore our country to its Pre-Bush glory!

    • Posted By: fiber artist @ 01/21/2008 18:42:14

      Comment: Chaney is even worse than Bush - went to an international funeral as Head of State, in a hunting jacket - yeah - really classy!

    • Posted By: fiber artist @ 01/21/2008 18:40:50

      Comment: Bush has zero class or intelligence. That's why the rest of the world pities us and hates us at the same time. Bush has an ignorant, boastful swagger and smirk and can't even pronounce NUCLEAR!

    • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 01/21/2008 16:18:43

      Comment: The only thing we could regret about having Hillary in office is that she will most likely polarize and divide this country more. Hillary herself would not make this happen, but the closed minds that voted for Bush (twice?) will not be able to rise above their partisan hate and forgive Hillary for Bill's affair (which is STILL no one's business). The repulbican smear machine will be on full blast. I would love to see Hillary as president (actually, I'd love if Bill could run again), but I don't think she is what is best for the country right now.

      What we need is someone who can truly unite our country. United we stand, Divided we fall. Well, guess what people, we are divided. We need to find some common ground. I love how this article suggests that the opposing party take presidential cabinet positions - what a great idea. Let's show the world that we are not as ignorant as Bush. Please give the US another chance!

    • Posted By: America-loveitorleaveit @ 01/21/2008 14:35:14

      Comment: What will we regret... a revitalized economy?, a nation that other countries finally respect? Inflation under control? A stronger dollar? A minimized national debt? SERIOUSLY, think before you write about "W". The only thing we should regret is how dumb some Americans are to have voted for the idiot in the first place

      • Posted By: steve02001 @ 01/21/2008 14:49:13

        Comment: W was better than FDR, Truman, JFK or even Reagan? are you on crack?

  • Posted By: Loquitor @ 01/21/2008 2:20:55 PM

    Comment: He could not have done it without his Democratic sisters and brothers as well. Can we ever hope to have a discussion based on fact rather than position?

  • Posted By: liddi_40 @ 01/21/2008 2:18:33 PM

    Comment: Everyone assumes threat will come from oversees. Could it come from within? Obviously some nations hate us, but can Germany (WWII) happen here? Has the Justice department been tampered with? Would anyone dare cross the machine in Washington? We live in a time of Satellite an unlimited government power. Is it so hard to imagine? Anybody else thinking big change is needed or am i reaching? You tell me.

  • Posted By: diena @ 01/21/2008 2:15:41 PM

    Comment: President Bush the greatest President ever. Period!

  • Posted By: liddi_40 @ 01/21/2008 2:08:37 PM

    Comment: Methinks. I really like that post. It misses one point, Bush could not have done those things without his Republican brothers.

    • Posted By: methinks @ 01/21/2008 17:43:18

      Comment: True. Republicans took over because people felt the Democrats fielded greedy, self absorbed, power hungry individuals. The came along Tom Delay, racial controversies of Trent Lott and George Allen, the scandals and criminal activities involving such people as Bernard Kerik, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley, lawyergate, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich. etc. Are the Democrats saints? No, but the Republicans took over and made the Democrats look like a bunch of rookies at such activities. They developed it into an art form.

  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 01/21/2008 1:42:55 PM

    Comment: ???On March 11, 2002, on the 6 month anniversary to commemorate 9/11 our Republican Yale University Skull and Bones Secret Society graduate knew to say, "There will be a day, when the organized threat against America, our friends and allies, is broken. And when the terrorists are disrupted and scattered and discredited, many old conflicts will appear in a new light - without the constant fear and cycle of bitterness that terrorists spread with their violence. We will see then that the old and serious disputes can be settled within the bounds of reason, and goodwill, and mutual security. I see a peaceful world beyond the war on terror, and with courage and unity, we are building that world together."

    "End the occupation of Arab lands," this war President tells Israel in Jerusalem?

    7,5 years ago he said, "If elected, I'll go after America's internal terrorists?"

    "History shows us what is possible?"

    Caught in Thought, Mr. President, you and your global Illuminati co-conspirators?

    This is nothing less, more or else than another "modern" round of fascist Skull and Bones Crimes Against Humanity, a war against Go(o)d.

    There is no "war on terror" but another war against Judaism and against Israel.

    Distance yourself from all campaigns of division and hatred and negativity, do not take any part in this for it is an illusion of the five-sense world, do not allow yourself to be instigated and pulled into a hate zone for on a metaphysical/spiritual level of invisible energies like attracts like and so you'll make yourself vulnerable to those who are aroused to hatred and violence.

    Love thy neighbor no matter what.

    • Posted By: America-loveitorleaveit @ 01/21/2008 13:49:46

      Comment: Dude.... what the hell is this?

  • Posted By: classof65 @ 01/21/2008 1:38:20 PM

    Comment: Would you folks please stop referring to some republicans as "evangelical voters"? There are not two parties within the republican party (evangelicals and non-evangelicals). I don't think you really know what evangelism is. If you did, you wouldn't use that term.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 01/21/2008 13:53:04

      Comment: RIGHT THEY ARE CALLED "EXTREMIST" A TERM USED FOR THOSE WHO TOUT THERE RELIGION AS THE ONE AND ONLY LIKE ROMNEY AND HUCKABEE!

  • Posted By: Majorteddy @ 01/21/2008 1:25:07 PM

    Comment: Now the Republicans know what its like to try to outlive the shadow of disgrace from a disappointing president. The Democrats could not run from the Clinton legacy, as Al Gore found out. The trouble is, the Democrats seem poised to jump in for another for another cold dip in the Clinton pool of disgrace just as they are emerging from the shadow of the first Clinton fiasco.

  • Posted By: America-loveitorleaveit @ 01/21/2008 1:23:05 PM

    Comment: Bush has definitely left behind a great legacy. I mean seriously....look at all the amazing things he has done to strengthen America! He invaded Iraq on a whim that they might have nukes. Tried to convince Americans that Hussein was linked to Osama. Yet he still hasn't found Bin Laden. Our economy is on fire! the only thing going for him is his crappy ratings and Haliburton. Gimme a break..."W" is a Loser who has made America worse.

    • Posted By: smyers16 @ 01/22/2008 10:44:14

      Comment: Let's examine your Post:
      He invaded Iraq because S. Hussein would not listen to the UN. He gave the appearance that he had the weapons. Everyone had the chance to examine the intel reports. England was convinced, Germany, Spain and Russia believed that he had them and so did the Majority of your Dem Congress-people. He did not decide this on a whim.
      Hussein was evil. Everyone knows it. He thumbed his nose at the world for years. Just because he wasn't linked to Bin Laden, doesn't mean he wasn't a criminal. Iraqis love the US, at least the sane ones do.
      Do you know where Usama is hiding? Can you convince Pakistan to do what they said they would. It's not like he can look up his name in the phone book and get his address. The man is a worm, burrowing his way out of sight because he is a coward.
      What would you have him do? Lower interest rates? DONE. Help people with their mortgages? DONE.
      Quit hating and try to help. What can He Do? Give us a plan that has merit and maybe we can try?
      Dems always have a criticism, but never a solution.

  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 01/21/2008 1:19:54 PM

    Comment: As planned, all Presidential Candidates and many others will distance themselves from GWB. This is political and religious spin and witch craft like we've never seen before. Why distance oneself from GWB? Because it is to appear that it is Israel and the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish, pro-Zionist "neo-cons," their Amen corner and their wealthy lobbyists and special interests representatives who have corrupted this Presidency (and previous Presidencies), misdirected U.S. foreign policy in the past decades to ruin America's reputation abroad and brought economic hardship and recession, eternal war and lack of basic building blocks and elements for a Good Life for We The People such as living wages, job security, social security, health care and education.

    It wasn't by accident or by co-incidence that GWB said 7,5 years ago during a Republican primary, as a meaningless Skull and Bones Governor of Texas, that "if elected, I'll go after America's internal terrorists," and then, visiting Auschwitz he said, "History shows us what is possible."

    And so now we have a Mr. Fix-It Mitt Romney who launched his Presidential Campaign at Nazi and Hitler supporter Henry Ford museum and all the candidates, mind you, on both sides if the aisle look up to Ronald Reagan and say that they wish to emulate him as President.

    Ronald Reagan was the sorry deceiver of a U.S. President who, in 1985, accepted the invitation of Helmut Kohl to visit a SS Gestapo cemetary in Bitburg, (W.) Germany. It was SS Gestapo officers during WWII who wore the Skull and Bones symbol on their uniforms, who helped make the Holocaust possible.

    1 + 1 = 2, no?

    Take it from here...


  • Posted By: Trout @ 01/21/2008 1:13:14 PM

    Comment: What a load. Bush is a two term president who said what he was going to do, then he did it. Today's polls mean very little. History will remember the Bush presidency for the big, important things he did. Like bringing democracy to the middle east. Spreading human freedom, "the glorious cause", to parts of the world who need ed it most. Continuing the struggle started by Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Washington. I don't think history will spend alot of time on weather issues, (Katrina).

    • Posted By: methinks @ 01/21/2008 13:51:36

      Comment: Yes GWB did 8 important things I can think of:

      1) A war that doesn't end.
      2) Mortgage crisis.
      3) An economy that is slowly going down.
      4) A weakened US Dollar.
      4) Budget deficits from a party that says we should not be spending money we do not have.
      5) Record busting Trade deficits.
      6) Record busting National debt.
      7) Manufacturing being farmed out at an alarming rate (bought anything labeled ???Made in Amerca??? lately? 3 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000.
      8) No world influence to speak of.

      • Posted By: rosalind1667 @ 01/22/2008 16:46:30

        Comment: Too bad that Bush didn't accomplish any of these fantasies of yours. Nice try. Meanwhile, history will most certainly remember that a dithering Bush let American citizens drown like dogs in the streets of one of America's most iconic cities.

      • Posted By: America-loveitorleaveit @ 01/21/2008 13:59:36

        Comment: Amen and Amen

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 01/21/2008 13:44:42<