I voted last week
Last week, I voted. During the 2000 elections, I didn't know what a chad was, this time around (sorry to say) I knew.
I voted for President Bush. I love the guy, he's got a good heart. There are many things about the man that annoys the crap out of me: he spends way too much money, he needs to tell the French and Germans where to stick it, he foolishly signed campaign finance reform which created more of a mess than it fixed, and he should have FIRED the Directors of CIA and FBI in the immediate aftermath of September 11 once their failures were known.
I watched the debates. I could not believe how ill-prepared Bush was for the first debate. I didn't need gloomy Fox News analysts to tell me he sucked. The next morning, I fired off an email to the White House and told him to "get his head out of his ass or get out of the race." And it wasn't because I needed convincing to vote for him again.
I couldn't believe he could not lucidly articulate why going into Iraq was the right thing to do, even if there were no WMD.
How could he have forgotten the slaughter in Rwanda, when 800,000 died, and the only thing President Clinton did was to block the Security Council from becoming "seized" with the matter?
How could he have forgotten all the clamoring internationalist at the Washington Post, the NY Times, and in the Clinton administration (many of whom are advising Kerry now) that we had to "go to war" against Serbia, without United Nations authorization, to stop Christian Serbs from killing more Kosovar Muslims, and it was only one-tenth the scale of Saddam Hussein's atrocities?
How could he have forgotten we have been involved in "low-level" warfare with Iraq for a dozen years, for we had flown thousands of combat missions, we had destroyed countless Iraqi military sites, and we had launched scores of cruise missile attacks to assert our dominion over another sovereign nation state?
Nothing was more disappointing to me than Bush's inability to answer a question he knew he was going to be asked. The facial expressions were excusable, leaning on his lectern was too countryish, too Texan, and too stupid by far.
Bush's performance improved markedly in the next two debates. If he loses this election, and I don't think he will, much ink will be spilled telling us how Bush killed himself in the first debate.
Five hundred years ago, Machiavelli studied Livy's history of republican Rome. In The Discourses, Machiavelli told us only during times of peace do republics select less noble men.
I voted for President Bush. I love the guy, he's got a good heart. There are many things about the man that annoys the crap out of me: he spends way too much money, he needs to tell the French and Germans where to stick it, he foolishly signed campaign finance reform which created more of a mess than it fixed, and he should have FIRED the Directors of CIA and FBI in the immediate aftermath of September 11 once their failures were known.
I watched the debates. I could not believe how ill-prepared Bush was for the first debate. I didn't need gloomy Fox News analysts to tell me he sucked. The next morning, I fired off an email to the White House and told him to "get his head out of his ass or get out of the race." And it wasn't because I needed convincing to vote for him again.
I couldn't believe he could not lucidly articulate why going into Iraq was the right thing to do, even if there were no WMD.
How could he have forgotten the slaughter in Rwanda, when 800,000 died, and the only thing President Clinton did was to block the Security Council from becoming "seized" with the matter?
How could he have forgotten all the clamoring internationalist at the Washington Post, the NY Times, and in the Clinton administration (many of whom are advising Kerry now) that we had to "go to war" against Serbia, without United Nations authorization, to stop Christian Serbs from killing more Kosovar Muslims, and it was only one-tenth the scale of Saddam Hussein's atrocities?
How could he have forgotten we have been involved in "low-level" warfare with Iraq for a dozen years, for we had flown thousands of combat missions, we had destroyed countless Iraqi military sites, and we had launched scores of cruise missile attacks to assert our dominion over another sovereign nation state?
Nothing was more disappointing to me than Bush's inability to answer a question he knew he was going to be asked. The facial expressions were excusable, leaning on his lectern was too countryish, too Texan, and too stupid by far.
Bush's performance improved markedly in the next two debates. If he loses this election, and I don't think he will, much ink will be spilled telling us how Bush killed himself in the first debate.
Five hundred years ago, Machiavelli studied Livy's history of republican Rome. In The Discourses, Machiavelli told us only during times of peace do republics select less noble men.
In modern times, nothing is greater proof of this maxim than the rejection Winston Churchill after the war. Now, I am not saying George Bush is "great" or "outstanding," but Bush may be one of those chosen few that "have greatness forced upon 'em" that Shakespeare's Sir Toby Belch mentioned long ago."It always has been, and always will be, the lot of great and outstanding men to be passed over by a republic in times of peace."
posted by Tony Harrison at 3:27 PM
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