|
Edited on Mon Nov-01-04 07:38 PM by footinmouth
I subscribe to APJ and get these articles delivered to me via email. I enjoyed this one so much I wanted to share. I have permission to post it here in its entirety. Enjoy !!!
=====================================
"Reprinted on DU with the permission of the publisher."
American Politics Journal
Nov. 1, 2004
===============
From the Managing Editor Jeff Koopersmith:
Why I am Endorsing George W. Bush
November 1, 2004 -- WASHINGTON (apj.us) -- Since I began publishing
American Politics Journal as a weekly political tip sheet on CompuServe in 1987, I've matured. With the help of Gene Gaudette, my trusted publisher, I no longer see the world in black and white, right and left, judicious or obtuse. In a sense, I've become a compassionate independent -- no longer satisfied with the status quo, but not eager for change either. My primary goal is to be worthy of money -- lots of it, and damn those who haven't had the opportunities, the fortunes of birth, the presence of mind to gain knowledge of the American dream and go for it.
For these reasons and more I find myself intrigued, no fascinated, with the presidency of George W. Bush.
And for these reasons, I have decided to vote for Mr. Bush in all good conscience and with avid enthusiasm.
George W. Bush turns out to be a sensible man. One need only look at his record to see this clearly. He loves life and this is demonstrated best by his catholic (with a small "c") determination to safeguard the unborn hydroencephalatic baby boy who has years of pain and torture ahead of him, kept alive in a blue cold hospital with tubes running to and fro, in and out of, and across his tiny body.
Mr. Bush, in his majesty, goes further. He fights the good fight
against using millions of frozen embryos for stem cell research that may someday come to life on their own -- one of them finding the cure for cancer because of the President's "Leave No Child Behind" program which properly treats children like cattle and measures their educational progress in spreadsheets unwilling to recognize stupid liberal concepts like "late bloomer" or "underachiever" or, worse, Attention Deficit Syndrome. Our society cannot worry about those rare cases who cannot compete. We must struggle on without them, train them in some two-bit community-college-cum-trade-school run by born-again Christian zealots, and allow them to seek their fortunes as cash register attendants at a local Wal-Mart earning minimum wage -- a gift, really -- of $865 a month. On that income anyone can live a good life.
It's amusing, really. Do you know that earning that much allows a
person to live in the back of his or her car, or live in a shared
trailer with two of three "friends"? That's pretty darn good. Best of all, it may be that the take home pay alone might allow one to eat, once in awhile, at a take-out Chinese restaurant.
Mr. Bush also understands another clear truth: that the rich shall
inherit the earth and that the wealthy man will arrive in heaven as
easily as a needle passes through a camel's eye. After all, it is the rich who provide everything for the less rich. They provide the jobs, the mansions to work on and in, the thoroughbred horses to curry, the Olympic-sized private pools to clean, the acres of grass to aerate, and the leaves of rare trees to rake until one's back breaks. It is the rich who keep our atmosphere clean by flying Gulfstream jet aircraft rather than use a fuel-burning polluting SUV to drive down to Florida from the Bronx for five days of sun.
Speaking of the Bronx, I also agree with Mr. Bush that the time has
passed when minorities, especially people of color -- especially the
descendants of slaves -- should count on a leg up from the more
fortunate of us. I think that Mr. Bush's lawsuits before federal
courts, even the Supreme Court, that pray for relief from the lousy
liberal concept of affirmative action are the correct courses of
action. Why should a good Christian white boy lose his place to a
minority halfwit if his SAT scores are higher? Could anything be more unfair? Yes, Mr. Bush is right -- the liberal theory that some
Americans are born with a cross to bear is ludicrous. America is a
meritocracy, not a never-ending black, brown, and yellow line for the dole. If you're born poor and hungry, then it is obvious, at least to me, that this is what the Lord intended -- and if you have the wherewithal to beat down the odds against you -- and actually go to junior college despite your poor genetic makeup -- then this too is the Lord's doing. Activist judges -- always mincing words and reframing the clear and rigid Constitution to help the unfortunate cannot be tolerated. It is they and the liberals who back them who have delivered this nation the agony of Class Warfare -- pitting the idiots against the rich, the hungry against the obese.
Thank goodness that Mr. Bush was raised to see the truth. The fact that he and wonderful Laura Bush lived in neighborhoods that restricted Blacks and Jews -- and anyone weird -- from owning a home in the area does not point to his bigotry, but rather his concern for "his girls." Would it be better for them to have gone to mixed-race public schools? Would it best for them to have taken a public bus, where they could have been robbed, or worse by the have-nots? Family values -- that's what's important -- to him and to me.
Now Mr. Bush and his minions, including the Black and Hispanic men and women he has generously strewn among his Cabinet, have set a new tone in the United States. Basically, and rightfully it is spelled out in the cliché, "Every man for himself." And sure, it's okay to make a racist joke once in a while, or throw the occasional ethnic nickname about every now and then (i.e. calling a Jap a Jap, or a Muslim Arab a raghead).
It's all in fun -- hey, we're all Americans -- and that's what counts.
Another thing I admire about George Bush is his folksiness. His ability to live for forty five years without ever leaving the United States except to go on the normal drunken fiestas across a Texas border town to Old Mexico is legendary in Greenwich, Connecticut. His refusal to pursue any sense or worldliness -- lest it confuse him with "old European" ideas -- is a testament to his wisdom. This insulation against the evils found across the Atlantic or the Pacific has served him well. It allows him to see the nations of the world -- United Nations -- as what they are, a bunch of self-serving hoodlums who just don't understand our concepts of justice and economics.
Taxation? This is where President Bush shines! He knows that the
richest Americans are generally people of influence -- opinion leaders, we call them. He knows that if he annoys them they will see too it that he is stripped of his power. Unlike his opponent, Mr. Bush has no access to true wealth -- the kind of wealth we all want for our families -- certainly not for ourselves. So prudently, Mr. Bush plays along -- again pitting the poor with no hope to effect policy -- against the rich who invent it and peddle it to the lowest but most powerful of our elected officials.
This is brilliant, really, because the poor in America have no stomach any longer to attack the rich. The last time that happened was in the earlier 1960s where Black Americans and even some white Liberals, fed up with the kind of institutionalized racism that George's father curried, began to burn our cities. Yes, they were fed some crumbs to calm them as a result, but the real payoff came later by driving a wedge between the poor and the poor, making the American Dream part of the New Testament, and making certain that any whisper of rebellion was swiftly and savagely put down. Now, the thought of rising up against cruelty peddled in the halls of Congress and at the White House is unthinkable. It's Un-American to protest. Those who do are now locked in cages beforehand as we saw at the two ruling party conventions. A smart move. Let them blow steam. Let them eat cake.
All the while the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting
poorer, so poor in fact that they won't be able to buy those AK 47s that Mr. Bush wants sold -- free of background checks -- at "gun shows." But even if they do buy them -- we are prepared. We have tanks, and machines that propel shock waves, and nets, and poison gas, and all the things that keep the rich and the "good poor" safe. And we now have the excuse to stockpile even more amusing weapons that can be used against our own people -- we have al-Qaeda.
We have fear.
We have the non-sensibility that terror breeds even in the bravest of us.
This is where Mr. Bush's genius propels me to his fold. What a rare
quality he has to discover that the same tactics he used as a boy with his parents, also work on large populations with a not-so-free press. These tactics are otherwise called big black lies -- and, as Hitler found out, the bigger the better. Mr. Bush is a reformed alcoholic and at least a drug researcher. No red-blooded American would deny any man four or five decades of sloth. Of course, Mr. Bush, like any of us would, lied about this to his parents, to his wife, to his girls, to the voters. He lied about a lot more. He lied in school to his professors. He lied to business associates. He was a pure American huckster -- and proud of it, and we proud of him. We were proud that he was a squeak-by C student at Yale and before. We were proud that he got into the Ivy League fighting the meritocracy all the way. We were proud of his bravery -- flying jets when he felt like it, wooing women and booze when he didn't.
Yet his true brilliance only came to the fore as he planned his bid for the presidency. Who on earth -- even in the Republican Party -- would entertain George W. Bush, a weak governor from a state that really had no governor except in name as a presidential contender? How Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, his friends from the neoconservative heartland? Bush himself, of course, is not a neoconservative. He is a compassionate conservative. Quite a difference. But when one wants to be president -- one has to don the costume. What better football to carry than a nice big war in the Middle East? A stroke of genius. Now we know how far this brilliance went -- a war planned years before he entered the Oval Office.
And what pride I have in him now. Look how his detractors call him
callous -- as he sat in that elementary school classroom while the World Trade and the Pentagon were about to come crashing down on three thousand heads. Look how he worried about the children, reading them fairy stories as if he was used to making up his own. He smiled at the children -- calming them while Dick Cheney took the reins of the presidency.
What difference does it make that 1100 American soldiers lay in their graves today with thousands of others maimed, legless, armless, burned to a crisp? It is worth it President Bush reminds us wisely -- it is worth bringing Democracy, with a big American "D" to the hell hole filled with oil we call Iraq. It is worth it to the one thousand wives and three thousand children now widowed and fatherless. These are American heroes. Yes they are. And other heroes will follow them -- from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia.
Who cares that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction? I
certainly don't. He killed his own people. We've never done that.
Weapons of mass destruction were not the reason we went to war with Iraq -- or should I say, invaded Iraq -- no war needed. It was to give Iraqi women the chance to go to school and to drive cars, and to wear dresses designed by Ralph Lauren but made in China. It was so Iraqis could vote for a legislature and a president that will do our bidding. Now that's the American dream! And damn the rest of the world to hell. Who cares what the French and Germans think? Who cares what the United Nations thinks? We have the power. We have the glory. Forever.
The problem with Liberals is that they are little girls. They think we could have assassinated Saddam and provided weapons to his natural Iraqi opposition. They think we could have negotiated with him to give up whatever weapons of mass destruction we had given him to fight the Iranians on our behalf years before. They think it isn't worth a single 19 year old boy's life to simply topple a mean dictator. They would allow all the other cruel despots to survive -- the tyrants leading the Axis of Evil. They would negotiate with the North Koreans and the Iranians. They would turn a blind eye away from Sudan. They would laugh at the threat from South American banana republics.
So damn the Liberals and the Democrats disguised as the brave. We know they are merely actors on a socialist stage. Let's give George Bush another four years -- maybe even more if we can change the law. Let's let him expand in his natural progression, feeding the war machine -- providing jobs to the poor through the army, navy, and marines. Let us leave him to invade another evil nation, or to declare war on Islam itself -- for this must be his plan. It just has to be. Every day, another two thousand nine-year-old Islamic boys turn to Osama bin Laden and against George Bush. Every hour a new Islamic fundamentalist suicide bomber is born from the Iraq invasion. Soon the entire Islamic world will be the target because they'll never learn the American way. They'll never accept our God given right to lead the world, or to own it.
Do not fear the liberal Democrat, my friends. They will never be able to force us to give up our own weapons of mass destruction -- those weapons that allows us to keep outlanders in line. They will never force thoughtful constructive judges on us, nor make us give up our dreams.
Have the courage I say. Vote for George W. Bush on November 2nd.
You couldn't be wrong... could you?
|
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(630 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
