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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Um, no, you must have misunderstood. We were talking about all those WMDs Bush said we'd find in Iraq, and about how he said there were close links between SH and OBL, and about how he said that the vast majority of the tax cuts would go to middle-class Americans, and . . .
Either Bush lied about all of these things or he has chosen to keep himself horribly misinformed. Perhaps he needs someone new to read the newspapers to him.
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My posting theme today is The Genius of W. Consider that his earliest actions as president --- his cabinet appointments --- came under early fire when Senate Dems complained they were out of the mainstream of American policy. W's response was the same for each: "You must not see the same {Insert Name Here} that I've come to know for the past 15 years. {Insert Name Here} has a tremendous heart. {Insert Name Here} cares about our values. I'm confident {Insert Name Here} will do good work for the American people."
W couldn't have known he'd soon be explaining why we went to war on factual grounds later proved wrong. But the tone W set has worked on dumb people and smart people alike to justify it ex post facto: People should be judged by their intentions. Their recent actions are not good evidence of their intentions. What makes a person a person is more timeless and ineffable, and can be irrefutably established by one person vouching for another. There are good
people, and bad
people. I won the Electoral College, so I get to choose who the good people are.
W's policy failures mean nothing, even to smart members of the GOP, because in our post-Clinton world they think
character is what qualifies one to be president. It has truly become a popularity contest --- except we don't judge people based on who they are, but on whom others think they aspire to be.
Genius.
