Vermont newspaper calls Bush worst president in U.S. history, calls for impeachment

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/13/14725/8530

Vermont newspaper calls Bush worst president in U.S. history, calls for impeachment
by jacksonthor
Fri Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:11 AM PDT

On Friday the 13th, April 2007, the Brattleboro Reformer, the third largest newspaper in Vermont that dates to 1876, joined the chorus of people calling Bush the worst president in U.S. history and for his impeachment .

As the newspaper says,

When the story of our time is written by future historians, there will be but one question asked: When confronted with the malevolence and mendacity of the Bush administration, how did the people in positions to do something about it react? Does Vermont want to go down in the history books as standing up to the worst president ever? We, the people of Vermont, have the chance to affect the outcome of this story. We must seize this opportunity.

* jacksonthor's diary :: ::
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That's why I wrote my latest book, Born to Cheat, to lay out the heavily-documented case in gory details why Bush is the worst president in U.S. history, and the people around him egging him on, namely Cheney and Rove, are just as big cheaters, liars and thieves as he is. If we aren't allowed to lay out the case in court or in Congress, we must do so in the court of public opinion.

My book also gives clues as to why Bush, Cheney and Rove commit such deceit to this day by showing how it has been a pattern throughout their lives beginning in their youth, and no one held them accountable then as now. As the title suggests, Bush would cheat in sandlot baseball games as a kid in Texas. Someone who was there told me he wasn't tough enough to be a playground bully - he was more like a control freak. When his team got behind and was about to lose, he would suddenly change the rules to give his team a better chance to win. It was like, "Okay, now we're playing to 15 instead of 10, and y'all have to bat left-handed." Sound familiar?

Some of this win-at-all-cost mentality was not Bush's fault - he had it ingrained in him by his parents, especially Barbara Bush, who sometimes would keep the poor boy inside drilling his mind with math flash cards while his friends got to play outside. Can you imagine spending an afternoon wanting to be outside with your friends and having Barbara Bush yell at you, "No, Georgie! Two plus five is seven, not eight, you idiot!" That kind of torture would damage a lot of boys and might help explain why Bush later tortured frogs and signed executive statements approving of the torture of detainees in Iraq.

Bush's dad helped by always looking the other way when Bush broke the rules and even aiding his cause in some cases, such as when he appointed a friend to head the SEC after Bush made illegal stock trades. Bush knew he couldn't really measure up to his dad's athletic and academic success so he took the shortcut to try to get his father's approval.

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[kurth]

1. Put his worthless lying ass in jail

Why didn't his mother practice birth control?

[Double T]

2. Great insight into the making of a psychopath............

and what great parents. It does NOT get any 'worse' than this.

[Parisle]

3. Bravo, Vermont

--- I hope that stories of this nature are an indication that we are about to see a tidal wave of popular disgust and revulsion levelled at this dangerously sociopathic farce of a president.

[The Count]

4. Doonesberry was right: a terrorist state!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread babylonsister

[Kurovski]

6. Recommend and kick!

That's one fine newspaper. They have their hands on the pulse of reality.

[Usrename]

7. Historians will ask why no one stood up to this, our first, despot.

I honestly don't think any historians will ever try and compare him with other Presidents. I just don't think so.

Instead, he will be compared with all the other tyrants throughout history (and he will be judged to be a failure in this regard as well).

All of the psychopathy, top down, of this whole administration, is something that could be remembered, and history might be puzzled that this is the best we could manage.

[orleans]

8. i always liked vermont (especially in the fall!) n/t