If you read one post tonight, read this one.....

[Old and In the Way]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=733976#734487

This is George Bush's 2000 acceptance speech....it is a stunning preview of plans that were born of arrogance, conceit, and a total misread of our country's needs.

No wonder the prick was shedding a tear, tonight...

[Mnemosyne]

1. Hello and good a.m. o&itW

Old in body, happens to us all,
Old in spirit, NEVER!!!

In the Way, hopefully to stop the repugnant nazi's at the carnival this week!!! :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

I hear you!

:hi: :hug: :pals:

[Old and In the Way]

2. Why, thank you for the kind words (and a kick for this thread!)

I think you've got me pretty well figured out. :evilgrin:

:toast:

[Old and In the Way]

3. One more time........

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. Hell I'll kick it as I started the original thread

I thought it was VERY instructive to go through his 2000 speech just after hearing and reading his 2004 speech. Very----um---interesting.

I think people need to be pointing it out. Big time.

[Old and In the Way]

9. I should have mentioned that in my post M_S, my bad.

He was telegraphing his intents to get the Bush Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Divine Right underway.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. This, by the way, is what I find most chilling:

He ACTUALLY WARNED US ABOUT THE DANGERS OF PROSPERITY!!!!

"But times of plenty like times of crises are tests of American character.

Prosperity can be a tool in our hands used to build and better our country, or it can be a drug in our system dulling our sense of urgency, of empathy, of duty. Our opportunities are too great, our lives too short, to waste this moment."

GOD that's chilling. So.....prosperity can be BAD???? WTF??? This just went right under my radar four years ago.

[Armstead]

6. Hmmmmm

The world needs America's strength and leadership. And America's armed forces need better equipment, better training and better pay.

We will give our military the means to keep the peace, and we will give it one thing more: a commander-in-chief who respects our men and women in uniform and a commander-in-chief who earns their respect.

A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam: When America uses force in the world, the cause must be just, the goal must be clear, and the victory must be overwhelming.

I will work to reduce nuclear weapons and nuclear tension in the world, to turn these years of influence into decades of peace. And at the earliest possible date, my administration will deploy missile defenses to guard against attack and blackmail.

Now is the time not to defend outdated treaties but to defend the American people.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. I found that part

um, INTERESTING, too. Ahem. He sure didn't mention Vietnam THIS time, did he?

[Old and In the Way]

8. He and the War Profiteering Puppetmaster sure failed that lesson.

"A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam:" Perhaps if they had showed up for class, they'd have passed on Iraq.

Honest to God, someone should get Kerry's team to deconstruct that 2000 Acceptance speech. That arrogant prick had a lot of balls to come up with the coasting through prosperity bullshit line.