Dare I say that the Patriot Act should be used on President Bush?

[babylonsister]

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Dare I say that the Patriot Act should be used on President Bush?

by Mary MacElveen


A few weeks ago it was reported that 58 percent of those polled by Newsweek wished that the Bush presidency was over with. I suspect that number would rise to astronomical levels if each and every American were polled.

Logging onto my computer last night after seeing Al Gore win the Oscar for best documentary for his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" the night before, what I saw was the name Bush in the news section of my Yahoo home page. It was then a reaction came over me. That reaction was I am sick and tired of seeing his name in the news. I am sick of him period. I longed for a president that I could believe in and when Al Gore won that Oscar, it only served to remind me of what we could have had.

When it was decided who our president would be by the Supreme Court a term used in the Bush V. Gore decision was used and that was "Irreparable harm to George W. Bush" Well what about the rest of us as we have suffered during these past six going on seven years? To the Supreme Court, thank you so much and that is used in the most sarcastic of tones. The American people have been harmed by your partisan decision and dare I say irreparably so?

During the nineties, I was a Republican (hard to believe, huh) and never voted for former President Clinton, but I can tell you this, I was happy. There was not a strong visceral reaction to seeing Clinton's name in the news. Turning on the TV to watch the news did not have me wanting to throw something at it by seeing either President Clinton or Vice President Gore. In fact it was nice to see our president met with throngs of supporters overseas. Even as a Republican and seeing him met that way, I could say, "That's my president!"

With President Bush it is the complete opposite and it has me longing for a president that I could have pride in.

While no administration is perfect, at least I felt some semblance of security and felt that the Clinton administration was keeping the eye on the ball. I did not walk around thinking that at any given moment an all out nuclear war could occur. I will elaborate on that later within this piece.

Call it the thinking of a naïve person or where some will say that I was not looking behind the curtain, but if one were to look at this 58 percent just recently polled, I suspect that a great majority of them are not looking behind the curtain, but know something is incredibly wrong.

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[Monkeyman]

1. K&R

[saigon68]

2. K & R

[Turbineguy]

3. Dare, dare!

[Demeter]

4. Welcome to the Light, Mary!

What the hell took you so long? Had to have your own personal ox gored to get the message? Not enough to watch your sisters and brothers gored?


Better late than never.

[EVDebs]

5. Read about Ptech and re-ask yourself same question again...

"Ptech's roster of clients included several governmental agencies, including the United States Armed Forces, NATO, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs, the FAA, the IRS, the Secret Service, and the White House. Despite the company's connections to terrorism, as of May 2004 they were still contracted by several federal agencies, including the White House.

Ptech had a security clearance to work on sensitive military projects dating to 1997."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech

Connections to terror funding etc. but STILL under WhiteHouse, FAA, DOD, contract. Lovely.

[zbdent]

6. In 1997/1998, I was so tired of the attacks on Clinton, I was waiting for

1/20/2001 ... but then I realized that, if a Dem won, the attacks would switch to whomever that is ... and the Repukes would be calling for his impeachment before the swearing in was over ...

[yurbud]

7. Supreme Court should have that "irreparable harm" line thrown in their face wherever they go

at least those who voted for it.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I believe we should welcome all our prodigal sons and daughters with open arms,

everyone is in a different circumstance and many take different paths to the same conclusion, indeed welcome to the light Mary MacElveen.

Thanks for the thread babylonsister

Kicked and recommended

[Slyder]

9. Bush may leave the country on 1/19/09!

Just some thoughts. There are rumors that the Bush family has recently purchased land in Paraguay. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think that Bush may flee there to avoid prosecution for war and other crimes. The ousting of US Attorneys in several cities looks suspicious.

If there is a Republican president elected in 2008, Bush will likely receive a blanket pardon. Republicans have a tradition of doing this. Or Cheney may resign and Condi, or cleaner Republican palatable to the Democrats, appointed VP. Bush might resign then and be pardoned. Then, of course, The Hague might beckon him.