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Since the first appearance of George W.
Bush as a presidential hopeful, ominous clouds of suspicion and credibility have
shadowed his every move. Over the five years since the beginnings of this still
unfolding legend that will ultimately become what Bush leaves to the nation and
the world - the questions concerning the veracity of this strange presidential
imposter have only deepened as both national and global events keep pace with
the continuing failures of this presidency.
The Office of the Presidency in the US
is the one and only office that was created to take responsibility for this
nation and for its survival, it was not meant to become some kind of ceremonial
office for a National Cheerleader whose sole purpose seems to be the private
gain of his friends at the public's expense - nor was the presidency meant to be
a place to be protected from criminal charges by a bunch of underlings.
The Presidency is at the heart of
American politics, and what this president heads is the Administrative branch of
a government that has grown impossibly huge since the end of WWII. Yet as the
scale of this branch of government has grown, its officers have shunned
responsibility for their own actions in inverse proportion to the direct
expansion of their powers and their propensity for lawlessness. This obscenity
applies most particularly to this president, which is what has created the
nightmares that are only now beginning to unravel.
Trust has always been at the heart of
the leadership in any nation, especially in this one. And Bush has done
everything in his power to dissuade the public that there is anything that
anyone could look to him to accomplish "In the Public's Interest." Yet
he still sits in that office, and continues to play his shabby shell games to
hide the truth of all his actions, regardless of the consequences that are now
everywhere in abundance. From Iraq to Katrina, from the economy to health care,
from the environment to the deficit from every corner his obvious ineptitude in
the decisions he makes is raising the stench of his failures to new levels of
intolerance. As his judgment, his inability to envision, and his real purposes
continue to rise unchecked, his falling poll numbers are finally beginning to
reflect the truth. His reception at The Summit of the Americas is only the
latest clear signal from those outside the USA that George W. Bush is not only
without credibility, but is in fact a key element in what is wrong with the
world today.
Bush apparently has never understood
that trust is at the heart of integrity, whether that occurs in a one on one
situation or whether this comes from him as titular leader to his people.
Responsibility and the acceptance of that concept is the key to the Office of
the Presidency and there is nothing in the world that causes Bush to run away
from reality faster than to demand that he take "responsibility" for
his actions. Without acceptance of responsibility there can be no legitimate
leadership of anything, much less the presidency of this country.
All nations and governments, just like
everyday people are judged on how exactly they keep their promises, because that
goes a long way to determining how credible whatever they might propose really
is. Presidents of the United States must also meet this time honored human
standard, a standard that goes well beyond our ever-changing legal system.
This began in earnest with the
rearrangement of the military Chain of Command, regarding any attack upon this
nation, and what this government did to absolve boy-George from any and all
responsibility for what happened on 911 - well before that black day was
planned. Some powers of the Presidency cannot be delegated, and the powers of
the Commander-in-Chief fall into that category.
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A US President has very clear
responsibilities. But GWB has allowed himself to be divested of those
responsibilities that give weight to the title of the Presidency - along with
authenticity. Bush demands that he be taken seriously, but how can anyone take a
self-appointed national cheerleader seriously, especially given this man's
Herculean failures in every area he has tried to affect? He has substituted
national terror for National Security and terminated clear and effective
leadership during any national emergency. What happened to sound judgment and
balanced fiscal plans in a rapidly changing world beset with energy demands and
shortfalls that stagger the mind? Why is the USA falling behind so many other
countries in health and national preparedness not to mention quality of life?
The only thing this government excels at is their attempted stealth management
of the real problems that the New World Order has brought to the 95% of us that
are not power barons.
Why are our borders not secure, why do
the individual states no longer have their national guards here in the very
states that they were created to assist? We have a government that is fixated on
creating diversions so that we do not see what they are really doing with all
that they had when they took over. This government has squandered our resources,
our job opportunities, our national reputation and given our lives to a bunch of
soulless corporations that care nothing about those who work for them, but only
about more money legal or otherwise.
From the beginning, George W. Bush has
run from responsibility wherever he has encountered it. Now his tawdry White
House advisors are expected to take the fall that he and Cheney so richly
deserve. Can anyone seriously believe that Libby or Rove ever did anything major
without the full and riveted attention of their immediate superiors? It is this
troubling thorn of actual "responsibility" in the paw of the White
House that is causing the Jackals all those sleepless nights - because everybody
knows that this is not even the tip of the corruption or the crimes - merely the
entry point that will begin to erode the myth of their "absolute
power."
But there is a huge and frequently
overlooked co-conspirator in all of this and that is the antiquated rubberstamp
machine that we call the Congress of the United States. This is the institution
that holds the purse strings that has enabled all the lies and all the abuse of
power that the Outlaws have engaged in. Had congress placed strings on the
funding, taken a more disciplined view, or demanded an open and determined
oversight of what this White House did with all that money over so many years -
but that's all just history now.
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There is however still one opportunity
to get to the heart of this darkness - and that lies in determining the degree
of determination that this congress could now show in actually airing the
Intelligence Committee's remaining half of their in-depth report on the
misrepresented intelligence that led directly to the Weapons of Mass Destruction
debacle. With over 15,000 damaged and debilitated US troops, not to mention all
the death and destruction that we caused to ourselves and others in the world,
we must sooner or later begin to find the root causes for this war and for the
crimes that have evolved out of the policies set by this administration. The
real target here must include the presidential edicts that govern secrecy
(including his father's immunity from scrutiny during his stint as
vice-president) on far too many levels - war or no war.
Currently the USA has a leadership that
cannot lead because it is hopelessly mired in failure, in presidential mistrust
and in complete incompetence no matter what this Leadership turns its energies
to, and this must change. Impeachment was the legal means written into the
Constitution to address this problem and if we are serious about continuing to
have a nation we should begin to consider this option very carefully because the
world will not wait for us to find the convenient moment, because as far as the
planet is concerned, we are way too late already. Paris is burning now, with a
similar disconnect between the haves and the have-nots, must we wait for a
backlash here, or can we turn the national spotlight on the depths of this
nightmare and finally begin to disentangle the truth beneath all the lies?
Ask yourself if you really know who
this government is. For that matter ask if this nation has anything to do with
the welfare of the majority of those who live here. What continues to be given
to the corporations in Corporate Welfare is an outrage that puts social welfare
payments into the category of Pennies vs. Billions, yet no politician even
mentions this giveaway. Billions upon billions are being thrown away on wars and
treachery, while those who pay taxes and put up with all the lies are being left
to fend for themselves. This can only end if Congress and the public finally
begin to look at what the United States has become, versus what whatever the
thoroughly corrupt Spinmeisters have most recently tried to make this nation
into.
There is a rare opportunity before us
now, but we have to begin to make some demands of those who supposedly serve us
if any of this is to ever be any different. We tried letting the politicians and
the corporations restrain themselves, and that did not work, Maybe we need to
devote some real effort toward finding out just who it is in government and
elsewhere that gives a damn if any of us live or die!
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