TO BEGIN WITH, THE PRESIDENT IS A FOOL

[PSU84]

TO BEGIN WITH, THE PRESIDENT IS A FOOL

By Richard Reeves October 28, 2004

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My gripe with President Bush, who has risen above his Yale, Harvard and oil resume to become a man of the people, is that he is an incompetent man of the people. He's smart enough for an elite job, but he has lousy judgment, no sense of history and the dogmatic ways of the insecure. He is a fool, quoting Webster's first definition: "A person lacking judgment and prudence."

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A lot of Americans, mostly white males of a certain age, look to this George Bush and see themselves. This campaign, I would argue, is one of the last convulsions of angry, real American men, who fear losing the country they know (or imagine), fighting to hold back the time and tide of the new, the un-white and un-Christian, and those girlie men, too, who sooner or later will make a different America. Bush has the "Father Knows Best" vote, from men who have lost their personal power and hate what they see happening all around them. Kerry, often blowing in the wind, is "the times they are a-changin'" candidate.

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Which one will prevail? I think Kerry will hold the one-vote lead I gave him. But this is a wild-card election. For the first time in a while no one is quite sure who will actually come out and vote this Tuesday. It would do wonders for the tired blood of American politics if there was a big turnout, but that could help or destroy either side. It could also shake up the Congress, which could use some shaking. The narrowly partisan and ideological meanness some Republican leaders have brought to the debate in Washington -- I'm really thinking of that other angry Texan, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- is about the worst I've ever seen.


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[RobbyRoo]

1. Fool me once...

Watch Fahrenheit 9/11 online.
Here's the link:
http://www.bush-flipflop.com/f911.html

SPREAD THE WORD!


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[bushisanidiot]

2. AWOL has absolutely NO accomplishments on his resume.

he has crashed and burned at everything he has attempted. he is only in the white house because of the supreme court. he is a complete and miserable failure. he brought his bad luck/misfortune/bad business sense to the white house and has ruined all that President Clinton worked so hard to accomplish.

Tuesday can't come soon enough for me..

[Jade Fox]

3. "the last convulsions of angry, real American men....

fighting to hold back the time and tide of the new, the un-white, the un-
Christian, and those girlie-men too who sooner or later will make a different
America."

This is great. Its nice to see this awareness in print (especially coming from
a man). And because the hard-core Bush-bots are trying to hold back the
inevitable, they are destined to lose, even if they win.

I don't agree with his "A-student" analogy of Kerry though. It took a lot
of guts to come back from Vietnam and speak out against that war. And
as for Kerry's convention speech, regardless of where he got his material,
his delivery was powerful and heart-felt.

[Village Idiot]

4. As long as Daddy and some of his friends

get everyone into Yale, Harvard, the TANG, (bail everyone out of) the oil business, the Governor's mansion and the White House, the statement:


"A lot of Americans, mostly white males of a certain age, look to this George Bush and see themselves"


makes perfect sense...;^)>

[Beetwasher]

5. LOL! I Love Reeves, He's One Of the Best!

"Biased? Of course. That's why I write this column: to share my bias. I am always amazed when I get letters, many of them, accusing me of being a "liberal" or, a lot worse, an "elitist." Yes, I am. Hello!"

LOL!