George W. Bush

The nature and extent of our current national crisis, as well as its causes and cures, are the subject of intense political struggle. I offer this letter as a contribution to that struggle and debate in hopes of helping to clean up the country and get it back on course again. I will start this discussion by arguing that it would be grossly premature for Pres. George W. Bush to claim final victory. Then, I will present evidence that Pres. Bush pompously claims that society is supposed to be lenient towards churlish ex-cons. That sort of nonsense impresses many people, unfortunately. Granted, he treats people as objects. But his criticisms of my letters have never successfully disproved a single fact I ever presented. Instead, Pres. Bush's criticisms are based solely on his emotions and gut reactions. Well, I refuse to get caught up in his "I think … I believe … I feel" game. Pres. Bush says that he is beyond reproach. This is noxious falsehood. The truth is that no one has a higher opinion of him than I, and I think he's an unscrupulous hacker.

I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with Pres. Bush and his deputies, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that Pres. Bush truly believes that going through the motions of working is the same as working. It is just such lousy megalomania, venal egoism, and intellectual aberrancy that stirs Pres. Bush to perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. Maybe he just can't handle harsh reality. I could be wrong about any or all of this, but at the moment, the above fits what I know of history, people, and current conditions. If anyone sees anything wrong or has some new facts or theories on this, I'd love to hear about them.

"So you buy that Republican scare tactic: "If you don't vote for us, you'll get *"? You voted for someone you knew to be ill qualified to do the job? Then democracy fails."

I don't think that tactic is limmited to republicans - democrats use it as well.  If one liberal decides he is going to vote for Nader, deciding Kerry just doesn't do it for him, another would say, "well if you don't vote for kerry you'll get *bush*."

On a side note, if Bush was the -best- application passed to you, maybe the solution would be to have more applications passed to you?

If more 3rd party candidates had a shot at the office, and it wasn't dominated by two parties, you would have more applications to choose from. 

Consider this idea: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV