"[W]hen candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading."
Now there's an understatement. That's from today's NY Times editorial with the name, "The Great Divider." Talk about a name that fits. I almost called Bush 'the Great Divider' the other day, but I couldn't bring myself to put the word 'great' near him.
Did you see the latest clips of Cheney making jokes about Kerry and just generally throwing off hate vibes towards all 'we the people' who are not of his base? It's a weird feeling to live in a country with leaders who openly despise half the country. I've never seen anything like it before. When (If?) they go away, I hope I never see it again.
Here's another snippet from the Times:
"In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.
This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office."
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