Bush's Addiction to Lying Does Him In
Wed Oct 13, 2004 at 09:01:10 PM PDT
Yes, we can party like it's 1992 but we should push that it's 1980 all over again.
Bush's inability to tell even simple truths will bury him with most Americans. It also gives us the opportunity to reach across the proverbial "aisle" to folks who don't want to admit they were wrong on the war, SUVs, abortion, etc.
Here's a sample letter I sent local papers.
Once again, Bush demonstrated that he cannot accept reality that contradicts his beliefs. In the first debate he lied about our levels of allied support, during the second debate he could not think of --much less admit to--making even one mistake, and tonight he flatly denied ever saying that Osama Bin Laden was not a problem, even though videotape proves otherwise.
This exposes more than a simple lack of credibility; it raises serious issues about his mental and emotional capacity to handle the Commander in Chief role. His rote responses with empty slogans to serious questions about education, jobs and morality sounded increasingly "tinny" and out of step with most Americans. His inability to defend his record on assault weapons, minimum wage and health care resulted in bizarre answers about background checks that are not required at gun shows, education funding promises that he never fulfilled and a "let's blame England" for an unsafe vaccine when it was an American company Chiron that caused the problem (at least he took the Canadians off the hook for one night).
Most Americans may be slow to react to politics, but contrary to popular belief in the Bay Area they are not stupid. Senator Kerry has shown a strong competent alternative to Bush's miasma of mishaps and misleading statements. I predict it will be 1980 all over again but this time the "good guys" will win.
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