I get this kind of right wing propaganda garbage often .....but I just could not ignore it today. I thought I would share it with you.
Below is my reply to all recipients of the e-mail:
I had to respond to this one.
My responses are in bold.
Read them if you feel so inclined.
Vince
If Bush resigned today, this is what his speech would be.
Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans', not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.
Yep ...this is the attitude that makes most Americans sick and helps to explain the low Bush poll numbers.
Citizens who ask questions, demand accountabilty and expect our leaders to be honest, truthful and competent, or who maybe just disagree with his policies.....JUST AREN'T REALLY AMERICANS. Not according to Bush.
I'll cut right to the chase here. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.
Sure let's take his word on that...we have no reason not to believe him. Never lied to us or misled us before.
The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership i s at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't sink in.
It doesn't sink in because it isn't true. Gov't economic numbers have been cooked for years. Our current situation started with the great Reagan Revolution and has carried through during Republican and Democratic control. Corporate takeover of our federal gov't. Hollowing out of the middle class, shipping jobs overseas all for the profit of large corporations and a super weathy few. Hey Bush ...adult children living at home w/ mom and dad is at an all time high too. Wonder why that is. I guess it is because they are lazy and clueless about how great the economy is.
Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.
Most working people could give a damn about the markets...which by the way could be heading much lower before you finally leave. We whine about gas prices because you were too damn stupid to formulate a comprehensive energy policy to begin to wean us off of fossil fuels. You piddled away 8 valuable years doing nothing but pushing for tax breaks for already massively profitable oil companies and blocking attempts to raise fuel economy standards.
We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood for oil' crap. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
So.....You owned up to the fact that someone else was to blame.
Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Cinton established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
Yep...everyone agreed we were right....thats why most of our traditional allies refused to go along with us...and of course anyway...IT'S CLINTONS FAULT!
You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.
Yes we face a unique enemy...but they are almost entirely in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is too simplistic to compare this to the cold war but if you must....Russia lost and we won right?? Hows that lookin' now? We are the worlds biggest debtor nation and Russia is on the rise.
That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11 But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'
I am grateful for the hard work of our professionals trying to protect the nation. Based on the level of competence your administration has shown in almost every other area of government, I am tempted to conclude their success has been in spite of you, not because of you.
Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops. Making mat ters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
YOU told us this Iraq war would last a few months and pay for itself. You declared mission accomplished less than 2 months after it started yet here we are 5 years later with no end in sight. The above is really ugly rhetoric and could only be used by a desperate fear mongering man. If you don't agree with the Bush administration's policies....you are a terrorist. NICE...No wonder most of the country and the world hates you.
IIn this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet, it isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol. I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a Cat 5 hurricane approaching.
I, Bush... belittle you... the American people. How dare you little people expect our gov't to help the poor and ordinary folks who may not have had the means to hop in their Escalade and motor up to Baton Rouge? Don't you know we are too busy building sewers and schools in Iraq and paying millions in bribes to Iraqi Sheiks not to shoot at us???
I could say more about your idiotic belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.
Well pal......under your administraion the money came from our grandchildren's wallet. You will have about doubled our national debt during your tenure, adding another 5 TRILLION to the national debt. So ...clearly, no sane person could doubt your small gov't, fiscially conservative credentials.
So, I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream of) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
If you are not lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall ..it will be because you made the fall happen quicker as the result of the disastrous effects of your Presidency.