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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lift not thy Hands
  • Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:15:53 -0400



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
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky





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