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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Bush Convention

Wow. That was really an underwhelming speech. For those who disagree, I watched Bush speak live on PBS, with the News Hour's Jim Lehr, some of the driest commentary you could find. "For the record," Jim Lehr says the convention planners want us to know that the balloons and confetti being dumped on Republicans is entirely "bio-degradable." It's good to know that the conservative party is finally coming to terms with issues like "pollution."

Something blaringly left out Mr. Bush' speech was the, er, current National Debt. According to the US National Debt clock, that was incidentally restarted during this Bush presidency, we are$7,365,777,259,552.18 in debt. But the price has probably gone up by the time you read this.

Bush proposes free medical clinics in every community, more money for education, more money for national secuity, more money for social security, and more tax cuts.

This proves he's a rich man's son. I'm no economist, but the man obviously has no concept of money. Has he ever done an honest day of work in his life?

In truth, has everything not been given to Bush on a silver platter? Losing oil companies. Losing baseball teams. Even, arguably, a losing presidency of the United States. Of course, despite the folksy demeanor, Bush is the spawn one of the wealthiest families in America. His becoming regeant of the US seems almost Old World.

Bush's convention speech was more like a second stab at the state of the union address. But he was wooden and unconvincing. His monsyllabic delivery does not inspire. it cause one to wonder how are we going to pay for all this? It seems that those who want the tax cuts now - and permenantly - are ready and willing to sacrifice US soldiers but are shamelessly unwilling to pay for it.

Bush has asked for over $100 billion just this year to pay for Iraq. It can be guaranteed, if he is reelected, one of Bush's first acts will be to ask for more money to pay for our military, Halliburton, and outsourced security guards who can't find decent jobs in the US. Afghanistan and Al qaeda are a different case. What about Osama bin Laden? Bush said he would "smoke him out" right after 9/11, but there was no mention of him tonight. He's still hunkered down in tribal Northern Pakistan.

If Iraq were really about Human Rights, why has the Administration hardly even uttered Darfur? Pyongyang? Columbia? Burma? The Ivory Coast? If Bush is so proud of his international record, where was any mention of the conspicuously absent Colin Powell?

If Bush has security down so pat, why were two protesters able to infiltrate the republican inner sanctum while his personal advisor, Karen Hughes, was held up 20 minutes before she could enter the convention hall?

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Thursday, September 02, 2004 



Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Bush Flip-Flops on War on Terror

Now we can win it. Especially with the 'catastrophic success' of Iraq in full swing.

ABCNEWS.com : Bush Reverses Himself, Says War on Terror Can Be Won

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Tuesday, August 31, 2004 



Slate Blogger Saletan Questions Bush's So-called Heroism

Saletan writes:

I don't mean to be unfair to Bush. Vietnam was a lousy war. He wanted a way out, and he found it. But isn't it odd to see Republicans belittle the physical risks Kerry took in battle while exalting Bush's armchair wars and post-9/11 photo ops? Isn't it embarrassing to see Bob Dole, the GOP's previous presidential nominee, praise Bush's heroism while suggesting that Kerry's three combat wounds weren't bad enough to justify sending him home from Vietnam?

Watching the attacks on Kerry and the glorification of Bush reminds me of something Dole said in his speech to the Republican convention eight years ago. It was "demeaning to the nation," Dole argued, to be governed by people "who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered and never learned."


Being There - What does 9/11 tell us about Bush? Nothing. By William?Saletan

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Tuesday, August 31, 2004 



The Problem with the Arguments of Giuliani, McCain

William Saletan writes in in his GOP convention blog for Slate:

The offense/defense metaphor treats the use of force as a football game, in which the enemy is clear, and every attack we launch is an advance. This eliminates the salient complication of reality: Al-Qaida and Saddam were distinct adversaries, and attacking the latter wasn't necessarily an advance against the former.

Giuliani Plays Offense - Blogging from the Republican Convention. By William?Saletan

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Tuesday, August 31, 2004 



Monday, August 30, 2004

Frat Boy's for Truth counters Swift Boaters

George Grimm, founding member of rising 527, says:

Bush and I served together in the fraternity system ... I may have seen him at a party. But it was 37 years ago, and I was smashed ... (Bush betrayed the group) when he transformed his life in his late 30s when he gave up booze and cocaine and found God.

March of the Lefties - Scenes from Sunday's GOP Convention protest. By Bryan?Curtis

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Monday, August 30, 2004 



In Case There were Any Doubts about Zell Miller

Faux Democrat Zell Miller endorses all of the following Bush's agenda:

Bush's Tax Cuts
John Ashcroft as attorney general
No Child Left Behind
Drilling for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge
The Patriot Act
The GOP Homeland Security Department plan
The Iraq war
A partial-birth abortion ban
RNC's "Truth Squad" (member)


Question: Why doesn't he just switch parties?

Zell Miller - Why the Democratic senator loathes Democrats. By Michael?Crowley

posted by Jimbo Trout @ Monday, August 30, 2004 







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