This story just gets me boiling! This story just set me a'flyin'!!!
Washington Post, 'An Exit Toward Soul-Searching
As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound'
If you work for a crook and lie, and steal, and kill (yourself or at someone else's hands).... you are a crook, too. If you come crying to the public (and your lawyer) saying that, "... he made me do it!" Well, pooie on you! You deserve a good romp in the hoosegow! How in the world can these 'Embittered' Bush aids expect us to react when we read "... that you just didn't know what you were doing and that bad man in the White House ... blah blah blah..." And as the numbers of people who work in the White House with Dick and George dwindle down to the few poop scoopers, ... man, this is just making my stomach turn.... there are a few 'special people' who cover for this criminal crew... (I am breathing in... with my nostrils flaring!!!) Maybe, we ought to take note of all who are still there... telling us about the terrorists, and our glorious economy, and strong healthy nation with working workers who live in houses... I am sorry. Genuflect all you like, they are just as evil.
Go here for the 'vomitous' story....
You and I have all been in positions to either tell a lie and cover for someone bad or to come clean and do the right thing. Whether it was on the playground or at work, or??? we have ALL had the opportunity to do right when it MAY have been easier to cover.... Somethings, to protect good people we have lied... when just the wrong stuff happens ... and to have 'told the truth' would have done more harm then good.... One of instance for me, as an example, was when in my elementary school, the janitor was clumsy and tripped over the water cooler in the office and glass and water went flying everywhere... The principal came ripping out of her office ready to fire anyone who did it.... Lying to her was important to quiet her anger and to allow the man to work (he was ready for retirement, the glass water bottle was replaceable, no one got hurt and nothing and no one else was affected).
But, when does lying to a nation about war where every one and every thing is at risk, allows you a free pass? Where did these people, who have no morals, come from? Don't these 'Christians' in Christian Schools study any Kant, Spinoza, Bacon or even Votaire ???? We have some fine people from our nation from the twentith century... read Letter from Birminham Jail by Marin Luther King, Jr.... I am sorry..... I am asking too much of these people..... NO! Let's get this stgraight. Even those who don't go to fancy schools and study philosophy but throw balls at hoops in dingy alleys and scrub floors as a living, understand what is good and what is bad. What constitutes treason and what destroys a good nation.
Is it really all about how much is in the frontal lobes???? Maybe THAT should be a criterion for running for president. "Okay, now that the debates are over, line up over here ... Ladies and Gentlemen... in front of the nation, we will NOW measure what is in their skulls.... Smile for the cameras!!!" Can you imagine???? Mark Twain had some words about the politicians of his day ... and I am sure HE would go for a quick biological measurement of the their ability to tell right from wrong..... And don't tell me Pelosi is praying for Bush....(OH PLEASE!!!) what we need are leaders to activly understand what it means to do right... A small book that was required of me to read in school was, 'On Being Responsible', edited by Gustofson and Laney, 1968 (Dr. King's letter is amoung the other essays). I was told by many of the cloth at my school to READ the classics to to help make informed decisions .... which is more effective then talking to myself on the floor next to my bed... And that method is usually left to those poor souls who don't have access to libraries and must live in a one cot, one pot cell.
Don't tell me that the philosophy of Bush and his Republican cohorts make them see the problems differently .... COME ON! When does letting people die in triple digit heat with no water, food, shelter, and then send them to live in substandard conditions in the Superdome or fermaldihyde trailors!!!?.... or redistributes water so that fish die by the thousands in Northern California (turning ther backs on the subsistance fishing community) just to get votes from a few rich farmers??? Or hides the health issues of asbestos in insulation in millions of homes, or puts seniors, our middle class, and our children at risk with extreme sub-standard health care. OR lets evil substandard lawyers destroy our Constitution?... There are way too many bad things, yes(???) for this to be and accident/coinsidence, a difference of political oppinion, or a diety's wrath. (I doubt it! We can do just 'rotten' all by our little selves, thank you!)
(sigh)... I walk away... then turn back to you.
I apologize for this rant.
I want so much from this nation.
I know we have the potential for so much good. I find the lackluster (that is a polite description) performance of our leaders and those sycophants who tend them, shocking. Sometimes, it is impossible for me to read the news except the headlines. There is a standard for which we must live in peace with our neighbors, next door and across the oceans. There is a standard for which we must conduct ourselves if we want to live long happy lives. There are standards to uphold for which we must be examples for our children. We must return to those standards to protect who we are and who we love.
Maybe that really is the bottom line. This nation is being lead by people who do not love.