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9.02.2004
Watching RNC Convention: (my analysis at the end) Pataki: "9-11 9-11 9-11" Iraq = War on Terror Saddam bad, 9-11 bad, therefore vote for Bush. Overdramatic... reminds me of Capt. Kirk. Bush did what he said he would do.... except go after the leader of the terrorists that attacked us on Sept. 11th. Statue of liberty is lighting the way, God chose Bush to light the way...like the statue of liberty? Kerry voted for the war, then he voted against the war, except what really happened is that he voted against a funding bill that Bush himself had threatened to veto if any of the funds were converted to loans. Crowd chanting flip flop. Bush: "9-11 9-11 9-11" Americans are heroic, I was president when they were being heroic, so I deserve the credit right? Climbing onto the backs of dead soldiers and dead innocents is nothing new to me, I climbed on the back of my daddy to get here too. Seniors are getting drugs but I have no plan to pay for it. Rehashed State of the Union. Kids are learning because I say they are. Wow, he drug "Compassionate Conservative" out of the closet.. *hack* *hack* this thing sure is dusty. I will keep you safe. Daddy is here. the world used to be secure, with life long jobs and good health care and retirement, that was yesterday, we need to bring retirement, health care and employment in line with the insecure world of today! Did he just say "reduce spending"? What a novel concept for this president... maybe in his next term he'll do it? Booo.. bad taxes. We'll get the IRS off your backs. We'll also increase spending for job training and invest money into energy independence. Umm Mr. President, saving accounts are not the same as insurance. The concept of shared risk... surely they covered that at Harvard... or Yale? We'll build health centers... with no money? Bad Washington bureaucrats... but umm, we don't mind HMO bureaucrats. RED HERRING ALERT: Overhaul labor laws.. to um.. help people, with flex time? Make homeownership more available... with what, faery dust? We'll keep our promise of Social Security... by diverting funds to Wall Street. (Surely Mr. President you know the difference between insurance and personal savings?) We're borrowing money to pay for education. And we'll borrow more money to pay for higher education. Hell, while we're at it.. we'll borrow money to pay for health care for poor kids. Where's that credit card? Kerry opposed Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. He actually had the gall to oppose my Boo Kerry... he wants to tax and spend, The path to the future is spend and borrow. I support Medicare reform, which umm... leaves people destitute.. if they don't go begging for work at my corporate friends. I oppose satanic... wait, I mean activist judges. I will appoint no more judges like Scalia... Conservatives... hate Hollywood, that's why they never go to movies... Reagan... is god. You know where I stand... (don't you mean sit Mr. President?) I showed up three days later... at the World Trade Centers...and said really tough things.. I yelled into a bullhorn and shook my fist at Osama.. then I sent others to go find him... kinda.. America is safer... because I say so. Saddam was a threat.. so I defended us from Saddam.. big bad Saddam that had no weapons... but had used them... year and years ago... when he was our friend... Iraq is a paradise now... except for all the killing and the general uprising against our presence there. We'll bring freedom to the Middle East or they'll die trying.... ... White Man's Burden... bring the darkies up to speed... and yet another government imposed from the outside... Remember four years ago when I was against all that peacemaking and nation building shit... well... psych! Kerry wanted to send troops to battle in their underwear. "There's nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat".. that's why I was going to veto the funding if it wasn't what I wanted. Kerry hates El Salvador. (Mr. President... did that Iraqi write God or Allah?) Terrorists hate freedom... (would that include the ANC "terrorists" like Mandela?) Palestine can be free as well... when we overthrow Saddam in Palestine! What.. they have no brutal dictator.. so why aren't they free? ------ Verdict: Decent speech, well crafted to push the message that no matter if Bush had been doing lines of coke on Sept. 12 he showed strong leadership by yelling into a bullhorn and consoling the bereaved families... not just anyone could have done that.. right? I find it ironic that Bush would propose new spending when he has no plans to pay for it. We're already in debt, if we want new spending.. on education on health care.. on security.. we're gonna have to keep borrowing or come up with a new way to pay for things. He's already pledged to make the tax code "fairer" which we all knows lowing or eliminating taxes on investments and income. He still pushed the idea that we can replace insurance programs with personal savings paid for with tax credits. Again, spending money we don't have. Iraq served its purpose as evidence that Bush is a strong leader, even though the threat of Saddam has largely been shown to be a faery tale, but even that reality was glossed over with tired lines like "killed his own people" and "used weapons of mass destruction" even though anyone with an internet connection can find the details on those clams and see how hollow they really are. The convention was geared to rehash the fears of 9-11 and to cast Bush as the protective daddy that will protect us from the evil ones with Iraq and Afghanistan as the proof. That's really all he has to run on... and that has been tarnished by the Iraq debacle and the deceptions involved... not to mention the cut and run job we did on Afghanistan in order to go for Iraq. "Compassionate Conservatism" means spend more and tax less... but it doesn't take an economics professor to see the error in that logic, even though if you need help I'm sure you can find an economist to explain it to you. If you heard Bush like I did you heard a man that is saying that he accepts the insecurity of the new job market and is working to move traditional programs like social security, Medicare and labor laws to be more in line with this new reality. What this means for the working class is more fear for their livelyhoods and more dependence on the stock market. He calls this freedom, I call it an endless series of nightsweats. The pundits are now busy giving their opinions on the "game" of who showed who without ever addressing the core central issues. Does it really matter that the Republicans promised more free goodies when they can't deliver any of them while cutting government revenue. |
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