What I don't get is how you guys can get all bent out of shape about obvious fact that Bush tries to mislead people, and then you question the former VP's mental health for -- at most -- political hyperbole. I hold Charles Krauthammer responsible for this meme, and being a former psychiatrist he should know better. It's ugly.
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
"In the end, for this administration, it is all about power. This lie about the invented connection between al Qaeda and Iraq was and is the key to justifying the current ongoing Constitutional power grab by the President. So long as their big flamboyant lie remains an established fact in the public's mind, President Bush will be seen as justified in taking for himself the power to make war on his whim. He will be seen as justified in acting to selectively suspend civil liberties - again on his personal discretion - and he will continue to intimidate the press and thereby distort the political reality experienced by the American people during his bid for re-election...."
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Crazy? Bitch, please. Is there any question that Bush sees the war on terror as his primary political strength? He used it for political advantage in the last election (Dept. of Homeland Insecurity, anyone?). One can disagree about whether to call what Bush has done a "constitutional power grab" -- not the phrase I'd use, but I didn't see what came before it in the speech, and I think I get where he's come from. If you're talking about the Padilla case, that's a fair turn of phrase.
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"The Administration works closely with a network of "rapid response" digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for "undermining support for our troops." Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, was one of the first journalists to regularly expose the President's consistent distortions of the facts."
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Crazy? Not even. I have no doubt that this is true, although calling people Brown Shirts is, again, not a phrase I'd use. It's hyperbole.
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Not deny - diminishes - to the extent that he does a Moore, specifically, Bush is more dangerous than the thugs.
"Even though we are now attuned to orange alerts and the potential for terrorist attacks, our founders would almost certainly caution us that the biggest threat to the future of the America we love is still the endemic challenge that democracies have always faced whenever they have appeared in history - a challenge rooted in the inherent difficulty of self governance and the vulnerability to fear that is part of human nature. Again, specifically, the biggest threat to America is that we Americans will acquiesce in the slow and steady accumulation of too much power in the hands of one person."
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He's not diminishing the terrorist threat at all -- you just disagree with him about the threat that Bush poses. Which is fine, but it doesn't make him crazy. During WWII, a lot of people probably thought the internees were threats too, but I think most people would not accept that their internment was the bigger threat to our system. Checks and balances, baby. Obivously, Gore is not suggesting that Bush is going to kill more people than terrorists.
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Originally posted by the Spartan
there was time, back in September of 2000 when in a calculated power move to win over the leftwing union voters who already vote democrat, he regaled the hordes of union stiffs at campaign rallies with the tale of how much he loved and was influenced by Momma Gore singing him to sleep as a baby with the "Look for the Union Label" lullaby.
Of course the fact that he was 27 when it was released, at the commencement of the horrifically nauseating ILGWU ad campaign that featured it, is no bar to his insanity.
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Whatever. If symptoms continue, seek professional help.
