( - promoted by Carnacki)
George W. Bush campaigned in 2000 that he was going to be a "uniter and not a divider." His gubernatorial record in Texas indicated that maybe perhaps he was 100 percent correct.... but as fellow Texan and 1992 and 1996 presidential candidate Ross Perot so adequately put it: "The devil is in the details." It was back then and sadly much much more so today. In Texas the legislature there was once one of the most non-partisan in the country at the time Bush was governor there. And the Democrats down there are some of the most conservative Democrats that America had back then. So it really is not that surprising that Bush and the Democratic legislature there were "chummy." Yet the Main Stream Media was successful in 2000 in conveying that very image. They said it possibly could work as President too. What they failed to say is that the Democrats in Congress are much more liberal the Democrats in the Texas legislature and that the atmosphere in Washington is much more partisan and less willing to compromise unlike the Democrats in Texas. It seems that Bush thought that he could get away with governing Washington the same way he did in Austin.... and the results have been a complete and total failure to say the least. Bush missed several very important opportunites to unify the country as one. The first test was the 9/11 tragedy of course. For a little while it seemed that he was passing the test with flying covers, until Ross Perot's famous words came calling again.... "The devil is in the details." When all the details came out we all knew then for the very 1st time that Bush was not placing his money where his mouth was. Little tidbits came out even on Sept. 11, 2001 how Bush actually seemed to "downplay" this national tragedy and seem sort of "uncaring" about it. For the very 1st time it seemed that "born-again Christian" George W. Bush might not be the real deal that the MSM portrayed them to be. Instead of placing Al-Queda as his number 1 priority instead he placed Saddam Hussein who now we all know - except for the "25 percenters" of course - that Saddam had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 or Osama bin Laden. In fact Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden hated each other's guts. They couldn't stand to be around each other even one second. While Saddam was indeed a ruthless dictator he posed absolutely no national security threat to the United States. None at all! Now the Iraq War has claimed even more Iraqi deaths than Saddam Hussein's "reign of terror." Instead of making 9/11 an "American issue" Bush decided to make 9/11 a "political issue" by lying and making the case for a bogus charge saying something about uranium - have forgotten the exact speech but do remember at least 90 percent of it if not even higher were lies to make his case for a war we shouldn't have even fought in the 1st place for two causes we shouldn't fight for period: Iraq's oil supply and defense contractor profits. Those are the reasons are now why we are in Iraq, not to remove Saddam. And then came Hurricane Katrina. This time it was much more evident that Bush wasn't being Christ-like in his response. From the very beginning he gave us the impression of a man who really didn't care about human pain, suffering, and death of poor innocent African-American mostly Democratic voters in New Orleans. Instead he and his Religious Right buddies said that God had "cleansed" New Orleans of "voodoo worship" and actually seemed to gloat over their deaths. Again Bush had another chance to unify the country. But once again he chose "politics" over "people" pandering to the Old Guard Southern white racists who cared less than even he did about New Orleans' people. Instead more Republican Mississippi and Alabama got the lion's share of help instead of Democratic city New Orleans. But even in Mississippi a stauch Bush supporter in the US Senate named Trent Lott blasted the Bush Administration for giving out no-bid contracts to out-of-state companies. More than 10000 innocent New Orleans residents passed away. It's been over 2 years now and the majority of Katrina victims are still homeless and displaced. Most of the FEMA trailers down there are empty and the others who do live them have air so toxic that's it's a legitimate health threat. To me those two tragic events have defined Bush more than no other. In both instances he chose "politics and profits" over people. And in both cases he chose "division" over "unity." Just look at the 2008 electoral map and you'll see what I'm talking about. The red Republican states are redder than ever. The blue Democratic states are bluer than ever. And it's even the case down here in the West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia coalfields. There is even a huge division between Democratic McDowell County and much more Republican Mercer County. McDowell Countians except for my fellow evangelicals and Pentecostals for the most part hate Bush and Republican-supporting Mercer County loves or is indifferent about him. The same is true for Virginia between Democratic-supporting Buchanan County and Republican-supporting Tazewell County. And yet again in Kentucky, with Democratic-supporting Floyd County and Republican-supporting Johnson County. One of the most lasting negative parts of Bush's legacy is how he chose division over unity and politics over people. He had two defining moments to bring the country together, and instead he chose to further divide us instead. Bush is not a "uniter and not a divider." Instead the exact opposite is true. Bush is a "divider and not a uniter." Sad but true.
|
As if the oil companies from Texas – and their allies in the corridors of power - hadn’t done enough harm to our country already (for more, see the late, great Gulf of Mexico), now they are at it once again. This time, it’s Valero and Tesoro, pouring money into a campaign this election season to undo California’s landmark, clean energy and climate law, AB 32. On Tuesday, the oil companies’ proposition 
