[Homestead] Lift not thy Hands
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 26 14:15:53 EDT 2008
Gene GeRue wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 12:20 PM, EarthNSky wrote:
>
>> . . . it just surprises me
>> that so many people seemingly naively believe this, like the president
>> has any real power to change anything, . . .
>
> That is a full stop for me. I once thought that. Then came Bush II. Do
> you still believe the president does not have real power, especially
> if his party controls the DC Whorehouse?
His power isn't really domestic. I don't think being president is worth
a damn to influence anything that matters to people on a day to day
basis, things like education and health care. For most folks, the only
way a president influences their daily lives is when he flies into town
and creates a huge traffic disruption. The power that a president has
is in perception, says I<g>, how he is perceived by other nations. Is
he a dunce like Bush, is he a liar like Clinton, or does he have his
finger on the button like Reagan. The only difference it makes if his
party controls DC is that he will personally take credit for it in a
re-election bid. If the other party has controlling interest, then
that is used as an excuse for why nothing changed.
This, unfortunately, is going to sound like I am defending Bush II, but
I don't blame him personally for all the ills of our country or the war
in Iraq. IMO, when it comes right down to scary sounding executive
orders, Clinton (Bill) ranks king. And like James said earlier, we are
in the middle east not because Bush is holding some familial grudge
match, but because of the Bourse and oil. Bush is just the dumb ass,
expendable fall guy for the cover-up. It would not matter who is in the
Oval Office right now, it would not change anything. If Gore were
president, we would still be in Iraq and still be operating covertly in
Syria, Iran, and every other country in the region in an effort to stamp
out fundamentalism and secure our own oil-lust-driven future. It most
certainly would be an Inconvenient Truth. The only difference would be
the spin on it. We would have heard a lot more about how Saddam Hussein
committed environmental crimes against humanity by lighting all those
oil well fires, by releasing all those toxins from his chemical warfare
into the environment and by draining the swamps in southern Iraq to
drive out the Shia(he destroyed an entire ecosystem and a culture that
had been in existence for thousands of years). The soldiers who died
would be environmental martyrs.
Bev
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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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