Back to Basics

Through his ineptitude and disregard for our collective heritage, George W. Bush has weakened our country and all but destroyed our reputation in the world. By embracing greed and profiteering as his guiding principle, he has abandoned our revolutionary, democratic values. He has turned the country into a country club of cronyism and corruption. Not to mention the sanctimonious gay-bashing.

He has waged a costly, unprovoked war in Iraq while neglecting to pursue the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, thereby depleting our national wealth while at the same time cutting the taxes of the most wealthy. Meanwhile more and more citizens lose access to health care, and his solution is that we go to the Emergency Room and/or go bankrupt. (The cost of his war and tax cuts could see everyone covered.) As for the insured, he ridicules "gold plated" health care plans, while he and his entire extended family surely enjoy such a plan, and no doubt he pays nothing. I'm getting a little tired of socialism for the rich.

He has instituted torture and warrantless wire-tapping. This is a horror story for the likes of which we used to scorn the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile some of George Bush's most ardent supporters and enablers seek out homo sex in bathrooms (and maybe the West Wing) while legislating against gays and holding themselves out to be Christian family men.

This is a sad time for the U.S. I hope we can one day recover our identity as a champion of democracy, equality, and freedom.