Elonka wrote:

] Seriously though, I get *so* tired of people blaming Bush for
] everything under the sun, but then never giving him credit for
] anything good that happens. It just reeks of hypocrisy to me.
] If someone isn't able to present a balanced perspective on
] things, and all they do is point out the negative, it just
] sounds like whining.

The Bush residency hasn't really left me with any positive impressions. I regard his Presidency as illegitimate. The Supreme Court disagrees though so I'm only left with my opinion and the evidence of voter fraud in Florida. Surely you heard about the voters who were taken off the rolls because of convictions they received in . . . 2007? Yeah, lots of that happened in 2000.

So is this whining? I vote. I feel that I can and should have a voice. To me, Bush was appointed, not elected. He has waged a war based on lies and deception. I do blame him for that. I don't see that he's done anything in my interests. How can I present a balanced perspective on the things I like about Bush? Want me to make some stuff up?

I'll throw out a hypothetical situations where I might give him a check mark in the "plus" column: (1) If he stops wrapping himself up in 9/11 imagery for the campaign. Stick to the facts, don't meld your image with professional video cuts into the tragedy. Don't appeal to emotion, appeal to reason. (2) If he testifies about 9/11. It would honor the dead and the grieving if he would tell us everything he knew before 9/11 and when and what he knew that day. (3) If he admits the war in Iraq was not ever truly about WMD. Tell us that you never intend to leave Iraq. Tell us about Cheney's secret Energy Task Force meetings that were about how to best secure the oil interests in Iraq for the "suitors." Tell us that the world's oil production will peak soon, and that's the reason we're going to colonize the Middle East.

I still wouldn't like the guy if he came clean on all of this, but the acts themselves would at least be respectable.

RE: Furor over Bush's 9/11 ad