I’m tired of all the anti-Bush stuff too. I think we should just all shut up, roll over, and play dead when we find out that Bush’s choice to head the presidential AIDS commission, Tom Coburn, said:
I mean, why get mad? Don’t worry, be happy.
And don’t let it bother you that the guy who said this shit is also the GOP nominee for US Senator from Oklahoma - in what is shaping up as a competitive race.
The amount of crap I see like this, that in normal times would rate a thread of its own, but is pushed down into the white noise by the both the quality and quantity of awfulness of the Bush administration and the GOP, is absolutely breathtaking. I’d have to spend my life online to post about more than a tiny fraction of it.
You may be tired of the Bush threads, but I’m tired of Bush. I’m not about to tell a woman who’s being gang-raped to stop screaming because after the third or fourth rape, her screams are all about the same old same old. And as long as Bush and his proxies are saying and doing appalling stuff, I may just have more stuff to say about it.
There are some pointless threads about Bush, and I wish they would stop.
But then again, it looks like there is only one thread about Bush on the first page of the Pit right now:
This thread is about an important issue: the Bush administration, through either incompetence or lack of caring, has outed a mole within al-Qaeda.
At most times, this would be an enormous issue, and heads would roll. This is exactly the kind of thing that does the most damage to the war against terror.
And yet, nobody seems to care.
That’s downright scary. I think there are so many threads, because it seems as if damning evidence, like the outing of an extremely valuable mole, has no effect. It’s kind of surreal - it feels like no amount of evidence can cause certain people to even question Bush’s qualifications, and it becomes almost a compulsion to keep throwing out more in the vain hope that something will have an effect.
I know I personally have never felt that there was such a disconnect between the actions of a president and his reputation among his supporters at any time in history. I’ve never been a strong Democrat before, but Bush has not only eliminated all of the Republican values I loved (economic responsibility, small government, less censorship, etc), but he has proven himself to be a terrible leader in the war on terror, and nobody seems to notice. At least not here. I think these stories get more play overseas.
