Friday, August 20, 2004
While Bush Becomes ...
...More frantic in trying to hold onto his job as the poll numbers slowly drift away on him, it seems one of his buddies and mentors is having his own serious political problems.0 comments
[Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon´s dilemma
Actually, while George W. Bush has been diddling with his poorly planned clambake in Iraq all these years, there have been all manner of actual conflicts around the world that needed his attention as president, and, of course, received none or precious little.
There's always Israel / Palestine, of course, but truthfully now, how much have you heard about:
Nepal
or
South Ossetia,
at all, let alone any participation by the U.S. in solving these crises?
We can't even get him to pay attention to Darfur, even when the whole rest of the world and half of this country fully agree that genocide is afoot in the Sudan. Even the pro-administration folks at CNN call this, "... the worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
Not to George.
While Feckless Leader has been busy creating friendly campaign photo-ops by packing rallies with hand-picked supporters, and controlling the media's reports, telling you that the U.S. is safer now that he took over an unarmed country, reporters can't even do their basic jobs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank without getting themselves killed or beaten and harrassed.
And while Bush is focusing his rabid base on the horrors of gay marriage, I imagine you haven't seen much about gay torture.
I assume these weren't in Condoleeza Rice's news briefing this morning. Otherwise, you'd think these affairs might be on the day's agenda for the President of the United States of America.
Granted, he doesn't like to take any time to read a newspaper, but at least he could take thirty seconds to scan the headlines at Google News or Yahoo News.
Just a thought...
posted by Gotham 10:36 AM
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