Sometimes it amazes me how disconnected the people in power or the people in the media are from reality. The example for today are the exciting (woophee!) 9/11 comittee hearings.
The Dumbya party line is to try and discredit his best critic by saying what he is doing is shameful, scurrilous, partisan, and all sorts of tisk tisk tisk. What a sad and unpresidential, fascist, zealot-fundamentalist way to do things. Call what somebody is doing all sorts of immoral terms, like it were true, despite all the evidence and witnesses they have to prove their point. Even the Republicans on the committee were trying to do Dumbya a favor and play the party line during the hearing.
Alas, Clarke received a STANDING OVATION from the crowd. There is the disconnect. There is where they are so far gone from reality. Who wants to hear a bunch of politicians kissing each other's asses covering things up and not actually speaking bluntly. When someone actually speaks something that actually sounds real, I have to believe it, far more than anything I would ever believe from Dumbya's people. And on top of that there attempts to discredit him are pathetic.
The same thing goes for the media. Instead of mentioning how much people want to hear someone like Clarke, they such have "the reaction from the White House". Give me a break. I know the simple minded things the White House is going to say, and it won't be anything honest. They like to lie about things, and I suspect they will continue to lie about things.
posted by: Scully77 (reply)
post date: 03.25.04 (4:25 am)
I watched the CBS Evening news last night, and I heard some of the testimony given at the 9-11 hearings. I can't remember the guy's name, but he apologized to the families of the victims; "We failed you," he said. That took a lot of guts to say.
If the government knew 9-11 was going to happen (which they probably did), how can they sleep at night knowing they didn't do anything to stop all those people from being killed??
Bush going after Saddam was personal. It was personal because Saddam tried to kill his Daddy, and that's why he wanted 9-11 to be partly Saddam's fault; to give him a good reason to go over there and get him.
