What Bush Has Stolen From Us »
Posted By tehranchik 1 year, 3 months ago in Political NewsMany of us had been waiting for tougher talk from Barack Obama about John McCain and the Bush presidency. At the Democratic convention, Obama began to deliver — but it wasn' t stark enough.
The Bush administration has seized all we hold dear and ground it into the dirt with its boot heels.
Most important has been the nation’s sense of its own morality. Few of us are deluded that the U.S. government was, before the Bush regime, a beacon of moral rectitude and social justice. The United States has overthrown many governments, mostly in secret, and supported repressive rulers. But when have our leaders publicly and adamantly rejected the Geneva Conventions and endorsed torture as a matter of national policy? It’s one thing for there to be a gap between national principles and government practices, and quite another for a president to deride those principles as no longer essential to the nation’s moral compass.
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HOW CAN SOME WRITE SUCH IDIOTIC CRAP.....I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY SO BASELY TREATED FROM DAY ONE TO PRESENT....THE PRESS'S JOB IS TO REPORT PERIOD.... NOT THROW IN ALL THEIR PERSONAL UNEDUCATED COMMENTS AND BIAS...IF NO LONGER A FREE PRESS, THEN ALL FREE PRESS PRIVILAGES SHOULD BE REMOVED... WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAW OF SLANDER? RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONES WORDS????????? THANK GOD THERE ARE FIFTY PERCENT OF AMERICANS THAT KNOW BETTER AND HOLD THEIR OWN OPINIONS.
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