Bush has lost credibility with "sentient" Americans (VIDEO)

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it's a start...

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/41646/

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OLBERMANN: Let's start with the basics. Americans, even media types, especially in crises, historically give top government officials a presumption of credibility until proven dastardly... How much of that presumption of governmental credibility remains?

ALTER: I'd say between zero and none, at least as far as the media goes, and I think any sentient American at this point, they've lost their credibility many, many times over. Does that mean they've lost the argument? No, because, as you've been indicating, facts often don't determine the resolution of the arguments. So they could end up winning in November by distorting the argument. But on credibility and the facts, they've lost.

They remind me of, you know, a politician who's caught in bed with a prostitute, and his wife comes in and sees him, and he looks up and says to her, Who do you believe, me or your cheating eyes? You know, they don't have any credibility anymore, so they just assert something that ain't so and hope that it plays....

It's a tremendous problem, because if you move from an evidence-based foreign policy, or domestic policy, to a--what you could call a faith-based policy, which takes you out of the realm of facts, out of the realm of rational policy-making that gone on in both Democratic and Republican administrations for many, many years, you're into a whole different place....

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1. K & R!

[rurallib]

2. Sadly the sentient are becoming a minority in this country

A little off the subject but the US continues to fall in all sorts of categories related to quality if life versus the rest of the world. I would guess our number of Sentient Citizens is falling also.