Generations to come will ask: Why did you not get rid of him?

[kentuck]

No doubt, there will be a giant sigh of relief on the day that George W Bush leaves office. Not just in America, but around the world.

In hindsight, people will ask, why did they not just get rid of him? Why did they let such a dangerous and unstable person remain in charge? What were they thinking? Were the people comatose? With all the proof of crimes, misdemeanors, and lies, nobody even tried to get him out of office. Will we look back and say, "What the hell were we thinking?!"

[DainBramaged]

1. Why isn't the MSM asking for his resignation as they did the last real President's

[calimary]

10. My husband just asked me that very question tonight while we were

watching Olbermann.

WHERE'S the IMPEACHMENT????

Isn't this guy just a frickin' POSTER BOY for it??? Especially since Clinton had SO much of that crap to face - for such a piddly little nothing of a "reason."

I think I'll start asking that when I call my reps (using the convenient TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers listed below in my sig line).

[Demeter]

2. Explain the Bell Curve and the Power of Addiction

Bell Curve: 50% of the people are stupid or insane (then throw in the criminal capitalist elements, and you've got a voting block (as in blocking relief))

Power of Addiction: American businesses have been building up the market for addictions to all kinds of distortions: alcohol, tobacco, licit and illicit drugs, coffee, bad foods, gambling, violence, sex without consequences, television, sports, etc...and we as a nation are addicted.

Addiction is a natural process, designed to reinforce survival and intelligence. It just so happens we are in the throes of a Natural Selection spasm...

When I was actually young, addictions were things like going to college and getting more education than anyone else in the previous generations, voting progressive, moving up the corporate ladder, etc.

Well, the corporate ladder has been pulled out from under the American people; the colleges either priced out of reach or dumbed down to the level of the lowest, and Liberal is an insult. I am a stranger in my own country, and tired of it.

[carolinayellowdog]

3. Why did you let him steal the 2000 election?

That's the first question they will ask, and the answer is that the corporate media had done everything in their power to cause Gore to lose the election, and when he won, they devoted all their energy to preventing him from taking office.

[DainBramaged]

5. To install a puppet they could front while they pillaged the treasury

[Wetzelbill]

4. much of the world already asks that

for sure it will be something history will be curious about. There will be lots of stuff regarding the Republican Revolution that will have future generations puzzled. Like why did Dems lay down to Bush for so long? Why did we let Whitewater get so out of control? Why did we allow the 2000 and 2004 election debacles to occur? The Iraq War? etc. It will not reflect too well on our country, the politicians in particular. People will wonder how and why this authoritarian brand of Republican gained so much power and why so many acquiesced. It's a sad and embarrassing time.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Yep, there's a parallel here between the 'good Germans' of the 1930's and 40's and

the 'good Americans' of today. These eight years will be studied around the world for decades to come.

[irislake]

7. You had a completely complicit Mainstream Media

to prevent it. And you still do. Watch the New York Times continue to beat the drums to attack Iran. It takes a while for the people to get organized and start marching in the streets -- and sometimes, as in the case of Germany, it is "too dangerous" and "too late". Lets hope that is not the case in your country. I don't think these terrifying criminals (Cheney/Bush/Rummy) will go peacefully.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. it will have to be the GOP that gets rid of him

many of them are embarassed and worried about him.

there was a giant sigh of relief when RW UK PM Margaret Thatcher left office

[KoKo]

9. I think I will say: "We tried everything we could but it was like throwing

pebbles at an army." It wasn't just Bush...it was all those who came with him that were waiting for years to storm our government. I think I will try to explain it that way. Never to allow things to go "too far" because before you know it there are more like them than like you.

But, heck, I still can't get through to my Freep Friends and Relatives. I can't think about grandchildren right now.... They might have to fend for themselves. :-( Or, maybe read copies of my old DU posts locked in a trunk in the attic, when I'm gone...if there are such things as attics and trunks in the future.

[smalll]

11. You know, I have a feeling that generations to come will only ask

who the hell was - he may end up as obscure as the cyphers of the late 19th century presidency such as Chester A. Arthur.

I'm pretty sure the schoolchildren of the future will curse us for electing all these Bushes and Clintons however -- "There were TWO George Bushes???" (One's the father, one's his son.) "So Hillary Clinton was Bill Clinton's daughter?" (No, his wife actually.)

I could deal with Hillary as our next president, but for the sake of future generations, this ends there: No Jeb and no George P., and no Chelsea either, no matter how qualified she may eventually become. Please, think of the children! The children of the future!