Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet, by Charley Reese

[Jane Austin]

For those who don't know, Reese is a columnist for the King Features Syndicate. He turns out three columns a week and is known as a STAUNCHLY COMMITTED CONSERVATIVE. I guess that's why this column is causing such a stir. He apparently took a good hard look at the Bush Presidency record vs. rhetoric, and came to some inevitable conclusions.

This may be a good one to share with conservative friends.

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Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet, by Charley Reese

Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's
re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate
backers. I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a frontman, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his administration.

Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the
world of any president in my memory. It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press conference recently.

John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to think and who knows that the world is a great deal
more complex than Bush's comic-book world of American
heroes and foreign evildoers. It's unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his presidential election efforts. But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be.

People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice. It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should
not know what their government is doing.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[TransitJohn]

1. kick n/t

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[LiberalAndProud]

2. Here's the link to above-quoted article.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese74.html

[sofa king]

3. There's more than one Gepetto at the controls, too.

This is where all the charges of "intellectual incuriosity," sound-bite briefings, and big-book management (the Bible, not the Alcoholics Anonymous manual, which he probably should have read as well) really hit home.

The President is not in control of his own Presidency because he's a delegator. He's a delegator because he's a http://mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe07.html">narcissistic asshole. And because he doesn't have the facts at his command, his minions have the luxury of spoon-feeding him the information needed for him to draw their conclusions, not his own.

But, because he's surrounded himself with extreme ideologists, they compete with one another for control of the President's simple mind--the Assembly of God versus the neocons versus the irredeemably amoral. Hence the incompetence, the inconsistency, and the "Mexed missages."

Were he not blessed with a National Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and an innate ability to mind-meld with the left half of the bell curve, his ass would have been on the street two years ago.

[Moderator]

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[Jane Austin]

5. Ooops. Sorry.

I didn't have a link, because a friend sent it to me.

I should have done a little googling.

Again, I'm sorry for breaking the rules.