Sunday, March 07, 2004
Strong reactions to Bush's planned NY visit
Actually, I'd be surprised if they don't tomato and egg his car. Something like Nixon's famed trip to Caracas in the Fifties.0 comments
This is disgusting. Even by George W. Bush's standards.
Newsday.com: Strong reactions to Bush's planned visit
Yep. Context is everything.
If the Bush campaign had carved some time out of their hectic "Hey! Really! I'm a Leader!" Tour and decided to stop off quietly to pay their proper respects—as human beings and as Americans, as well as properly somber government officials—even Gotham Notes would stand and applaud this as a truly American deed and moment.
But, of course, they couldn't do that, no.
They had to shove it in as one more fabulous photo-op while they're stuffing their pockets even more with loot from even more well-heeled Republicans out on the Island. Also on the agenda is stopping off at a fake, dog-and-pony photo-op tour to highlight the small company which obviously has been awarded New York's Two Jobs! which comprise the state's jobs creation allotment under Bush's economic recovery plan.
If they had just left it at that, this would have been poliitics as usual—no problem. No harm; no foul.
But, as we see Bush continue to smear his face with the ashes of the 3,000 dead of that day as camouflage to protect himself in his bitter battle to hold onto power, the bile this creates sticks firmly in the throat.
It's one thing for him to do this in Kansas or Utah, where terrorists tend to just be those wacky folks out on Rt. 215, who are armed better than Ft. Bragg. In these places, the WTC is just a recruiting poster. Images, like Iwo Jima.
But he's coming here with our blood on his hands. He's coming into the belly of the beast here, where his failure in office and his inaction actually cost the lives of our families and our neighbors; where he came to us in our darkest hour and was content to create a few cool photos; where he made promises to the world of help for New York that he never intended to keep; where all September 11 means to him is a linchpin for focusing his campaign message.
George W. Bush doesn't have a credibility problem.
George W. Bush has a morality problem.
George W. Bush is much too immoral in the core of his very soul for us to worry about something so petty as whether he lies or not.
This is truly disgusting.
posted by Gotham 11:46 AM
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