Unmasked: The George W Bush the President Doesn't Want the World To See

[CHIMO]

Is President George W Bush, who weaves a narrative about himself as a man of God, actually a charlatan? Is he really a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Is his faith a sham? Is he more bad boy than born again? More playboy than penitent?
This past month has seen John Kerry, Bush’s Democratic rival for the White House, take one almighty pasting from the Republican right wing over accusations that he exaggerated his military record in Vietnam. Kerry, a many times decorated navy Vietnam veteran, said the smear campaign was orchestrated by a Bush team desperate to divert attention from the woeful state of the US economy and the running sore of Iraq.

But this week it’s Bush’s turn to line up for a beating. But where Kerry has a single questionable question mark hanging over his past, Bush’s charge sheet for alleged wrongdoing has got it all – sex, drugs, cowardice, cruelty; his alleged failings and foibles are imperial in stature.

These are the issues being debated as a result of further revelations into the shrouded past of the President.

http://www.sundayherald.com/44773

[redstateblues]

1. Kerry Has A Single Questionable Question Mark Hanging

over his past? That's bullshit right out of the box. Granted it's nothing compared to Bush, but that is outrageous- there is no ral question mark over Kerry's past- only some made up crap.

[RevCheesehead]

2. Character IS relevant - more relevant than a blue dress.

What impressed me this week was Kerry's comparing this presidency to the Good Samaritan story (in his address to a black church).This shows a deeper understanding OF scripture, not just superficial references to God and faith.

I often think of Jesus' warning to beware of those who practice their piety before others "in order to be seen by others." Jesus tells the disciples "they have received their reward." And it's in those terms that hypocrisy shines brighter than any speech.

In that same light, it is why I BELIEVE Bill Clinton is a Christian, and one who has grown tremendously in the last several years.


OUR challenge is to make Character a relevant issue.
Character 30 years ago AND today. * has not changed, and we all are paying the price of his arrogance and stupidity.


(sorry for the sermonette, but these are the things I believe, but cannot say in church....it might endanger our "tax-exempt status.")

[hlthe2b]

3. this is interesting:

Even more damaging is the allegation aired by Kelly in her book, The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that she has gathered “a great deal of circumstantial evidence” that the President helped arrange for a girlfriend to have an abortion in the 1970s.

Kelly says four friends of the woman who had the abortion provided affidavits to the authoritative US current affairs magazines Time and Newsweek about the abortion but the magazines did not run with the story.

[Catfight]

4. I knew emphatically that Bush was a coward and a fake with faith when

he refused to go under oath and in public regarding the truth about 9/11. When he blocked all efforts of the committee to seek the truth but he hide behind Condi and Cheney instead of stood up like a man. Therefore, only a coward in the same category as Saddam Hussein would do such a cowardly deed.

[Karenina]

6. It's AMAZING that this *dolt

after having been "apoinointed" by the +SC+ and having CLEARLY shown himself on the world stage **time and again** to be UNFIT for "command,"(and oblivious to key concepts that could prolong our species' survival on this globe, consciousness, consensus and cooperation) has not yet been stormed out of office, pitchfork and torch-like, along with his *criminal cadre. What they've done to the Capitol! Barricading themselves in and such!

They've raped everything they've touched including AMERICANS. (Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime? I got outsourced and my kid made it back alive from Iraq but needs...) Have Amis been so hypnotized by media that they no longer feel even their own pain? No longer see it around them?

IBM Eccentric? Wie bitte? VINTAGE TYPEWRITERS are the TOP NEWS STORY?

WHAT a ficken CIRCUS!!! :crazy: :freak: :wow: :freak: :crazy:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Unfortunately, this is from a foreign newspaper

The people who need to see it (U.S. voters) won't.

[teryang]

7. It's a slippery slope to the bottom when...

...you not only cynically accept corruption but give up the most fundamental Constitutional principles.