Who would say such a thing?

[Stinky The Clown]

Congress is due back in session next week. Who might we rely on to say something along the lines of:

"This country is being mismanaged. We have hundreds of thousands of our precious citizens grieving, wandering, wondering, and dying in the streets and back roads of cities and towns along a hundred miles of our once beautiful and now ravaged Gulf Coast.

The country surely has the resources to lend aid. It is our government's highest duty to lend aid. And yet we have seen precious little. And what little we've seen is woefully late.

As a United States (insert speaker's position here) I am appalled. As a citizen I am distressed. As an American I am angry. As a human being I am disconsolate.

The current administration has mismanaged everything with which they've become involved. The War in Iraq© is being mismanaged, as is the 'constitutional process' they've been touting as their crowning achievement. The security of our country is being mismanaged to the point that our borders are porous, are ports insecure, our airline security system an affront to our citizens, and our first responders are less than they were before the events of September 11.

And today we are more than a week beyond the date of the greatest catastrophe ever to befall our citizens. A Category 5 hurricane raged for days, giving clear signs of its target. And yet, in the face of that rage - and that clear indication of its victim's location - we had a president who continued to vacation, interrupted not to help the country, but to raise funds for his political party and to politic for ill-advised, ill-conceived, and ill-intended cuts to our social safety net.

As I stand here before you today, we see widespread suffering, borne decidedly and unfairly by the least of the least of us. More have died in the aftermath of this monstrous storm that died as its direct result. Those deaths are the direct and absolute result of the gross mismanagement of our national weal by the president .......... "

The person who says this will be the next president of the United States.

Will that person be a Democrat?

If so .... who?

<edited to correct splleeling and punc'tuation, errors. x( >

[Erika]

1. I hope so

Russ?

[speedoo]

2. Great post.

Nominated.

[faithnotgreed]

3. let it be soon -- gary hart perhaps

i dont know there arent too many to choose from sadly

[lady lib]

5. Gary Hart was interviewed today on a local radio show

(KXXT Phx) and he made it very clear that he was not interested in running for any political office.

[faithnotgreed]

6. figures - oh well thanks for letting me know

there are some who have courage to forge ahead with important issues - john conyers of course comes to mind but i cant think right now of anyone who has deep conviction combined with righteous and forceful straight talk about this maladministration and is of an age to run for president next time

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I don't think this is about running for office .........

...... it should be about speaking the truth in a clear and unambiguous way ........ you know ....... like the Republicans do when they talk about Democrats.

[KT2000]

4. Send it out

many should be standing to say this. Conyers is the only one I can think of who might think of it on his own.

Very thoughtful post.

[speedoo]

7. Well, it certainly won't be Mary Landrieu (sp?)

She praised the Coward on CNN (Larry King) earlier.

We don't need spineless Democrats like her.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. On the other hand, Mrs Blanco had to bite her tongue to hold back her

rage when on Larry King last night.

[renie408]

10. Sounds good to me...

I hope and pray you are right. I wish somebody would stand up and say it right now.

[rasputin1952]

11. the neo-con 'vision' is to set up a society where everyone other than the

super rich works at the behest of the new "Lords" in the US.

The enterprise is to set up a vassal/peon state and send the US tumbling into what we are trying to correct in Third World nations.
The basic ideology is that only the affluent should have power, 'because they know best'. It is the same old bane of humanity since time immemorial....and Americans are finally awakening to the fact they've been duped by this group of Royalists.