Most of all, I guess, I'm leaning Democratic because of all the awful, callous, retchingly heinous things I've seen in the last seven years. I like the Democrats because:
they haven't used legalese to put themselves above the constitution
they haven't ok'd torture
they haven't put party cronies in positions of power and failed to do their duty
they haven't issued one-sided contracts to companies they used to run, and milked the taxpayers while reaping exorbitant revenues and providing sub-par services to out soldiers
they haven't lied to go to war
they haven't neglected a legitimate war against our enemies to fight an illegitimate war against our non-enemy
they haven't outed CIA agents out of revenge against truth-tellers
they haven't made political hay and an unprecented monarchical power-play out of a national tragedy
they haven't made a yes-man attorney-general
they haven't sat on their ass while New Orleans was sinking
they haven't been anti-science
they haven't refuse to send condoms to Africa because of the bible and accompanying political implications
they haven't treated veterans like shit
they haven't chosen an ambassodor to the UN that is opposed to the existence of the UN
they haven't been associated with Donald Rumsfeld
they haven't been in bed with the Saudis
they haven't disputed the existence of global warming
they haven't dilly-dallied on the urgency of adopting renewable energy
they haven't outsourced a war to mercenaries who are above any law
they haven't created a prison in Guantanomo which is beyond the law
they haven't blamed only lowly officers in a torture scandal that was approved at the highest levels
they haven't been lax with Russia because they "saw into their soul" or some such.
they haven't fired attorneys that didn't meet their political ends
they haven't threatened war with Iran, when prior intelligence says there is no causus belli
they haven't failed to caputure bin Laden. Everyone needs an enemy to justify their bellicosity.
they haven't suspended habeas corpus
they haven't broken the law by bypassing the FISA court to wiretap without warrants
they haven't ok'd black sites and extraodinary rendition of people that are not charged with a crime and all too often innocent of anything
they haven't been involved with Jack Abramoff
they haven't let oil industry executives, including Ken Lay of Enron, write the people's energy policy
they haven't diagnosed Terri Shiavo from the Senate floor via TV
they haven't been borrow and spenders, thus making the deficit more and more and more....
they haven't stacked the Supreme Court with religious idealogues
they haven't created a Medicare drug program that is anti-competitive
they haven't allowed the VP to create his own intelligence operation to cook the books on Iraq and justify war leading to hundreds of thousands of dead people
they haven't allowed the head of he Bush campaign in Florida to oversee a recount in which he most likely lost
they haven't been responsible for trying to torpedo the 9/11 commission (why?) and then refusing to provide documents
they haven't been responsible for not implemeneting the recommendations of the 9/11 commission
they haven't been the authors of a doctrine of preemptive war
they haven't screwed the reputation of the US worldwide...diplomatically and personally.
they haven't been oblivious to the Israel/Palestinian issue which is at the heart of most Arab/West problems
they haven't been behind any of the egregious signing statements in which the president claims to be above the law
they haven't authored any guidance related to the "unitary executive"
they haven't stretched the military to the point of breaking, including using national guard troops in extended duty overseas
they haven't allowed people such as Karl Rove to keep their security clearance after outing a CIA agent
they haven't nominated a crony like Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court
they haven't staffed HHS positions with religious idealogues
they haven't called for a freakin' Constitutional Amendment disenfranchising gays
they haven't banned photographs of caskets showing the cost of war
they haven't been stewards of the housing bubble
they haven't been involved with Karl Rove and his attempted politization of everything.
they haven't been fans of Paul Wolfowitz
they haven't "lost" all of their email required by both an archive policy and presidential records policy.
they haven't nominated Bernard Kerik for anything
they haven't shot anyone in the face
they haven't rewarded failures like Tenet, Bremer, and Franks
they haven't hired all their lawyers from evangelical shoolx (Monica Goodling et al)
they haven't said that everthing would get better after the fall of Baghdad, the capture of Saddam's sons, the capture of Saddam, the creation of the parliament, the fist vote by the people, the purple finger vote, etc. This Republican Party is all about spin.
3 comments:
Steve, first you jump the shark with your Nazi comments. Now you post a long rant, forgetting that the Clinton administration was guilty of quite a few of the very things you are ranting about, I don't have time to name them all, but pardon-gate is the equivilent of Abramoff, No one has been more guilty of illegally donated money than both Clintons, Clinton did in fact grovel to the Saudis, they were certainly stewards of corporate misconduct, worldcom, the dot-com bubble and yes Enron, which started well before Bush took office, what exactly did Clinton do with Israel and Palestine? the fact that you bring up Bin laden is a fucking joke, Clinton had plenty of chances to catch him and blew it, I could go on and on with your list, but it's a waste of energy.
I am once again, retiring from posting here, it's not productive and I don't really see anyone budging from any of their predisposed beliefs so what's the point?
Damn, Jim, I don't ever remember the Clinton administration. You're like, a lot older than me. I was really partying back then. Smoked a lot of dope in the nineties and watched reruns of Cops.
What predisposed beliefs have you disabused yourself of due to this goofy little forum? I, for one, have become much more knowledgable about impacts of tax policy due to your participation. I've also become much more confused, but that goes with the territory.
And yes, Clinton was an unethical piece of shit too. That's why I'm not voting for him again. Lots of presidents have sucked. But I wasn't referring to any of them.
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