Helen Thomas: Call Bush to account on Iraq, economy

[CatWoman]

I don't recall seeing this article posted. If it is a dupe, my apologies.

Take, for example, the war against Iraq and the credibility of the president who started it on the basis of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. There should be public accountability on this. I hope Bush either reveals everything that went into his misplaced call to arms -- or that he pays a political price for his deception.

Bush is spotlighting the upswing in the economy but the pressing problem of unemployment and job flight overseas may spell trouble for him.

The president may also be held accountable for the huge tax cuts for the rich and the burgeoning budget deficit that those cuts helped deepen.

My own feeling is that unless something turns up in the personal lives of the two major presidential candidates that is a shocker, the election will turn on how the voters feel about Bush's muscular foreign policy and conservative domestic policy.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/2411065

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Good one CW

It was new to me. Thanks for posting. Helen is a national treasure.

[burrowowl]

2. Would Abe Lincoln win today?

He was both ugly and depressive, it didn't stop him from being a great president.

Do people really want a vanilla 1950's-like goody-goody with no depth and even dangerously evil (many Nazis loved their family and their dogs and were great family men (PBS documentary) (see also: Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil)), so-called 'healthy' president? Scary!
Eugentics anyone? Anyone not 'normalized' to the Praxil ideal or some such, who is not to be 'conformist' enough to be a 'leader', etc. can they be elected? Even if what they stand for and do is for the good of th country and humanity? Gandhi? Buddha, Jesus ... were they conformist, the physical ideal, etc...?
On a smaller scale ...DK and AS are closer to the Democratic Party ideal up to the 80's, but we are given the choice of a DLC-type (better than Repubs re abortion and the environment (however CAFE failed) with an almost, but not quite identical view re corporatism (fascism) (a bit like Teddy Roosevelt who was 'progressive' re workers because at the time they were scared shitless of the workers' movement, yet maybe the Founding Father of American Emperialism ....).
People gotta think, hopefully, it is not too late ... unfortunately, it probably is.

[rfkrocks]

3. have faith-its not too late

It appeared too late in that cold winter in valley forge-but we americans stood up against the strongest bully of the time (with help from the French-what do you think of that Rummy?) You are right about the banalty of evil-but Americans will fight back-we are waking up from the wormtongued GOP- when people realize we sent our soldiers into a country for no reason with no plan and with disdain for the world-it will change-its time to dig our trenches -this is the fight of our lives-keep fdr,jfk,truman in mind and we will save our country

[burrowowl]

4. Welcome to DU, rfkrocks!

I'm glad you have an optimist gene. Me, I have a pessimist gene.
However, that gene doesn't stop me from working towards the Commonweal or the greater good!