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.

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      Scare tactic, "If you don't vote for us, you'll get *"?  Are you really saying Kerry didn't use that tactic?  would anyone have ever voted for kerry if the person he had been running against haddn't been bush?  That was 50% of his fucking platform.  the other being about 10% "free" healthcare, and 40% "when I was in vietnam".  He was a bullshit candidate that ran on not being bush and the scare tactic of what would happen if bush won the election.  and you have to balls to call the strategy "Republican scare tactic[s]"  that is complete hipocritical bullshit.  At least i have the honesty to point out that Bush isn't the best person for the job, just the best available option. 

>>11
     I am at odds with instant runoff voting, as it has it's drawbacks, and I am not personally decided on the issue.  However as long as it remains a two party system neither party is interested in the extra competition that comes from instant runnoff so i doubt I will ever really have to worry about it.