May 30, 2008
President Bush’s recent speech before the Knesset, ostensibly to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, was not only a display of political cynicism at its worst – using a diplomatic occasion to perpetrate an unseemly attack on Barack Obama – but a microcosm for the disregard with which the President holds the rest of the world. And vice versa.
Events in the Middle East over the last two weeks are all the proof you need. Here’s what the President said: "Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century.
1 comment:
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
The apt commentary about America now being "neither loved nor feared" in the Middle East is a fitting epitaph for George the Lesser, while he slithers slowly out of the White House back towards Texas, leaving the old frat house in total dissaray for somebody else to give a good cleaning up, with an upaid party tab lying on the table that also must be picked up and covered.
For the Bush/Cheney junta, it was mostly exhiliarating good fun while it lasted.
Let's just pray that there's no one last hurrah, an October surprise that involves more shock and awe. That's what I still fear.
Bill from Saginaw
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