Recently, President Bush claimed that he had given up golf in a sign of solidarity with our troops and their families. While I would be the last person to criticize someone from making any sacrifice to keep a devotion to our solders in mind, coming from this President, the gesture seems far too little and it is made worse by the fact that it appears he lied. Not only is his gesture questionable in regard to being a conscious effort on his part, because his aides suggested it to him, but also because of a medical condition that may have forced him to abstain from the sport. It also appears that President Bush lied about his token gesture, by playing golf months after he supposedly gave it up. Keith Olbermann said is best once again in one of his special comments on MSNBC:
This is just the latest in a series of outrageous actions that this administration has either been directly responsible for or has allowed to happen, things that go completely against the spirit and ideals of America. To list a few:
1. Torturing prisoners held in our custody.
2. Starting a preemptive war against a nation that was no direct threat to America.
3. Operating secret prisons in foreign nations out of the reach of international and congressional oversight.
4. Keeping Americans fearful and manipulating elections though the use of a laughable color-coded terrorist warning system.
5. Wiretapping the telephone and email communications of American citizens without a warrant an in violation of the law. (Don't tell me that this wasn't used for political ends either...)
6. Placing people in charge of regulatory agencies from the industries that they are supposed to regulate - such as the EPA, FDA, and Mine Safety)
7. Disclosing the identity of a CIA agent and exposing friendly operatives in other nations to danger just to score a political point.
8. Holding a secret energy meeting with oil executives before the war in Iraq and refusing to disclose what happened.
9. Disastrous incompetence and lack of leadership that left Americans dead, injured and homeless after hurricane Katrina.
10. The deliberate and complete politicization of every action and function of government especially foreign policy.
Any one of these would be worthy of investigation and possibly impeachment. This administration is the worst in American history.
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- Matt
- Lima, Ohio, United States
- I was born and raised in Ohio. I am a lifelong Catholic Christian who has always been interested in the big questions of life. I have a passion for learning especially Philosophy, Science, Religion, History and Culture. I graduated from the University of Toledo in 2001 with a B.A. in International Relations. I married my soul-mate, Jen in 2001 and we moved to rural Tanigumi-mura Japan where we taught English for 3 years. We moved to California and lived in San Francisco and the Bay Area for 4 years. Tired of sitting on the sidelines, I began volunteering for the Barack Obama campaign in March of 2007 and was eventually hired as a Field Organizer. Through the Obama campaign, I found my calling and moved back to Ohio to continue organizing. In 2009 I helped the field operations of the Keith Wilkowski for Mayor of Toledo race. After that, I was hired as a Regional Field Director for 15 northwestern and north central Ohio counties for the 2010 Democratic Coordinated Campaign. Jen and I are continuing to volunteer as we wait for the next organizing opportunity to present itself.
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