Is it any wonder he's the most hated "president" ever?

[ailsagirl]

The inauguration-- a perspective

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Powerful corporations and their lobbyists threw around dollars like so much confetti at decadent parties entertaining Republicans who now control all three branches of government and the fate of our nation while 36 million Americans live in poverty, their numbers growing as the families of National Guard and Reserve units trapped in Iraq for more than a year struggle to make ends meet at home and fear for the lives and safety of their loved ones at war.

Republican movers and shakers like Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, as well as chairs and members of powerful committees that will determine the legislative agenda for this Congress bellied up to the troughs of the pharmaceutical and health care industries, and HMO’s while 45 million Americans, including many families of our National Guard and Reserves, lack basic health care coverage.

Even though American men and women are fighting and dying in the streets and along the highways in Iraq and in the mountains of Afghanistan at a cost of 1,360 dead and more than 10,000 maimed and wounded in Iraq alone, Bush did not even mention Iraq or Afghanistan in an inaugural address that was, to use Shakespeare's words, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

While Bush repeated words like freedom and liberty in almost every sentence, millions of Americans have found, “Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.” The entire ostentatious spectacle was like one of the floats that rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue -- flimsy and hollow, “a Barnum & Bailey world, just as phony as it can be.”

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=992&POSTNUKESID=6fd08647a0040ada2bc939ee383dc7b0

[msgadget]

1. Unfortunately,

when a link to Intervention is referred to at that other place, the reply is something like, "...ignore it, they're progressive." It's astounding how easy it's been to dupe avowed Christians merely by turning the words progressive and liberal into epitaphs.

I saw a clip of the president on the news where he said something to the effect, 'Americans don't want their money to go to things with no return...' :wow:

[TwentyFive]

2. Spending money on kids in poverty has no return? Dumb president!

How can they be pro-life, and then steal money from these kids in poverty. Don't they deserve a better chance?

[msgadget]

3. Their proposals

are usually more pro-fetus than pro-quality of life. He ran as a Compassionate Conservative, remember? I'm still waiting for one of those to be true.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. It comes as no surprise to me how hated he is..

He and his ilk reconfirm my contention that "pro-life" has nothing to do with the sanctity of life, but eveything to do with the control of women's minds and bodies.
As Simone deBeauvier said "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"

[msgadget]

5. That's giving them a lot of credit, imo.

They pander to a certain type of voter with this issue. The current man in the chair isn't even that impassioned about it. Pro-life is a finely crafted voting block. So, it'd be too complementary to believe corporate pols care enough about any person to give a damn what a woman does with her body. They run this country like it's a corporation and we're the numbers they manipulate. The voters really do care, and for them it could be a matter of controlling a woman's choices but, for the pols, it's niche marketing.

[ixion]

7. they're pro-life, until you're born

then you're on your own. After you leave the womb, you're a potential candidate for termination in Military, by The State, or any number of privately run enterprises. :evilgrin:

[indepat]

6. Hey, this President is enjoying some of his best ratings in a year and his

SS magic is being eaten up as if the people were getting caramel popcorn as a daily treat.