...I'm okay with being REALITY-based.




Wednesday, June 18, 2003
      ( 11:37 AM )
 
Current Events

The President launched his campaign (not that it ever ended the last time) last night with a $2,000/person hot dog and nacho cocktail party fundraiser in DC. Here are just a few tidbits from the President's first stump speech:

"We're returning more money to American families to
help pay their bills," he said. "We're reducing taxes on
dividends and capital gains, to encourage investment.

"With all these actions, we have laid the foundation for
greater prosperity, and more importantly, more jobs all
across America so our fellow citizens have a chance to live
the American Dream," the president added.

"Right now this administration is focused on the people's
business," Bush said. "We've got a lot on the agenda."

And what agenda would that be? I think that it's going to take a lot more than BushCo's projected $200 million campaign pot to overcome the realities of this administration. The GOP thinks it can use its overwhelming dollars to demoralize the democrats and independent voters of this country into feeling like it's inevitable that Bush will win in 2004. Fortunately for the country, it doesn't look like people are going to be so easily fooled this time.

What record is Bush going to run on? He likes to say how we ferretted out the evil regimes of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in Afghanistan, the people are still living under violent attacks and uncertainty about their futures. There have now been over 50 US soldiers and countless civilian Iraqis killed since Bush's May 1 declaration of "Mission Accomplished." Ari tried again today to convince us that the economy is getting better - but the fact remains that the millions who have lost jobs since 2001 are still out of work with no prospects. Instead of finding out the truth of what really happened on 9/11, our government instead continues to punish and torture people who had nothing to do with the attacks. The Homeland Security Department, which was supposedly set up to make us more secure is financially neglected and failing at the very core of its duty to the American people.

The press continues to insist that BushCo is a "popular, war-time president." But isn't that what they were saying about his father a year before his massive loss in 1992? Money and chicanery are not going to win the day this time. I hope that the American people who believed BushCo about this war and bought the propaganda about Iraq's connection to 9/11 won't be so fooled next time around.

As we all know, a majority of voters voted against Bush in 2000. Those voters are not amongst the population that have fallen in love with this administration and will be changing their vote this time around. Also, those voters were divided by a third party candidate, which will not be the case this time since there is one overriding electoral goal of the two groups. All it comes down to is us voters who originally voted against Bush in 2000 stepping up to the plate and simply doing that again.

| -- permanent link