How has George W. Bush changed the American landscape?

[obtheatre]

It has been nearly eight years since George W. Bush took office and in that time much has changed across the American landscape. From the tragedies of 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the housing foreclosure crisis to $4 a gallon gasoline and rising food costs - America 2008 is vastly different from America 2001. In your opinion, how has George W. Bush transformed the American landscape? Under the Bush administration is the United States better or worse off today than it was in Janaury 2001?

We are small theater outside of Pittsburgh, PA, assembling stories from real people to tell the story of where America is today. These stories will be worked into monologues to be presented as an evening of live political theater.

We are looking for your point view – a one to two page fact-based story of how American life has been affected or changed by the past eight years under the Bush administration. And we are not just interested in the negative – if you believe the American situation has improved or you have been changed for the better, we’d like to hear those stories as well.

Be bold, be brave, be honest. Let your voice be heard. Don't just write partisan attacks - let your emotional response be tempered with facts. Although there is no monetary compensation for chosen monologues, authors will be credited in the program (i.e. John Smith of Tulsa, OK) and a copy of the program will be mailed to them.

Send to [email protected] . No attachemnts, please. Deadline is August 20, 2008. Thank you for your submission. If we choose to use your story, you will be notified by August 31, 2008. H elp spread the word and please pass this along to any friends who may be interested in telling their story.

[AndyA]

1. George Bush has changed the American landscape by defecating on it.

Big, steaming piles of shit everywhere there was once beauty. These smelly, foul objects are scattered about all over the place, serving as visual and olfactory reminders of the contempt the man has toward this country and its people.

Not only has Bush slit our throats and left us to die, he's taken a dump in the gaping wound.

It will take generations to undo the damage this foolish little man has caused.

He must be indicated, prosecuted, and imprisoned for his crimes against America, the world, and its people.

[wurzel]

2. Bush has institutionalized corruption.

It will take more years than the Prudoe Bay oil spill to clean up.

[timtom]

3. To continue the analogy...

he has changed the landscaped much like Roundup or Agent Orange.

Defoliation.

[soothsayer]

4. I fear he has just rendered visible what has been invisible.

Sadly, he didn't invent 'renditions' or the US use of torture (we've had those horrible 'schools of the americas' for a long time); he isn't the first to spy on us---you're kidding yourself if you think it hasn't been happening for years; Iraq isn't the first time we've had unjust wars, or used our military to protect not our country but our economy (I think if you look at where we go and what we do with our military, we're constantly using them to muscle money or resources or other sorts of retribution from other nations (by making them use USDs, which can't be spent anywhere but in the US). At least since the creation of the CIA, we have not been a sovereign nation. The CIA can start wars and make all sorts of mischief without having to tell the congress, the president, etc. So Bush mainstreamed these things, but I'm afraid they've been here all along.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Boooosh Wasn't The Cause, He Was The Puppet

Watch Bill Moyer's program on the rise of Jack Abramoff and you'll get a real good inside look at what poisoned the well long before booosh took power. His regime just built on the facism already going on in the House and brought in the operatives to completely politicize the executive and neuter both the legislative and judicial.