I'm a little late on this, but it's worth noting. Here's the intro to the New York Times story on Monday about Bush's speech in Egypt:
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — After basking in a showy celebration of America’s close ties with Israel, President Bush criticized other Middle East leaders on Sunday, prodding them to expand their economies, offer equal opportunity to women and embrace democracy if they want peace to become reality.
Hard to count how many things are wrong with that paragraph. My first thought was, what a fucking hypocrite. This comes from a president whose country's economy is tanking, who has repeatedly denied women equal rights and opportunities, and whose party is working overtime to gum up our electoral process. And then I realized, hey, it's not like Bush has made peace a reality -- maybe this is some accidentally insightful commentary?
Sigh. Ok, I know it's not. Let's just focus on the countdown -- and on keeping the Bush-ish John McCain from being elected in November.
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Oh, no, it's not hypocritical at all, Ann, once you realize what he actually means by these things. For instance, when he says "expand your economies," he really means sell your sovereignty to the IMF and World Bank so we can have our way with you and take imperial power and profit off of your "development" even without the whole messy imperialism thing we've got going in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also means produce more oil so the U.S. can get it for cheaper here, so we can put off finding an energy alternative longer, and the oil business can continue to profit. Which has essentially been his strategy for the domestic economy as well: aka, eliminate barriers that make it harder for him and his friends to profit. :-)
Not to mention he and his dad have the Saud family so far up their asses they belch falafel.
At this point, no amount of hypocricy or lying on the part of the administration even causes me to bat an eyelash.
I would probably wet myself, however, if any of them told the truth.
Right...b/c the Saudi's and other Middle Eastern countries need to embrace democracy and women's rights..haha...I think he officially lost his brain...He can't do anything in this country, and he's telling others to do stuff...right...
Ohh...
and this just in and Yahoo News..
BUSH SAYS THE CUBAN SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING AFTER DECADES OF NEGLECT!! Fuck, he says that about Cuba...what the hell did he do this country...almost a decade of neglect as well...STUPIDEST PRESIDENT EVER!
RoseColoredGlasses:
that's an example of American efficiency. It took 40 years for communism to destroy Cuba, and Shrub did it in less than 8.
WE WIN!!!!1!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!11
Can't they just keep him locked in a closet for the next seven months? Please? Just keep him from fucking things up any more than he has?
*Whoever the Dem is 2008*
I guess I'm playing devil's advocate here, but this is something I have questions about. I'm young and love to hear other's opinions on these topics, so feel free to let me know if I'm being ignorant/naive/whatever.
1. I'm voting for Obama.
2. I think Bush is a very frustrating person.
However, what place do Republican feminists have in the election? My mom is very cautious and afraid of the word feminist, despite the fact that she embodies so much of what feminism stands for. However, she's (most likely) voting for McCain, and considers herself a Republican. What's her place, or any Republicans place within Feministing or the movement? Is it wrong for me to want to "change her mind" if I don't want any conservative Republicans changing my mind? Ugh, I struggle with these "devil's advocate" issues and would love any / all of your wisdoms.
I don't even know if that makes sense, sorry.
ccafxcb: can I ask why your mom is leaning towards McCain?
And have you/are you able to talke(d) with her about why you support Sen. Obama? I can't talk to my dad about politics w/o getting into an argument (he's pretty much a homophobic racist against choice who thinks climate change is a "liberal media conspiracy") w/o it becomign a shouting match so I understand if you can't talk to her about this.
But if you can I urge you to talk to her about her concerns and speak to them.
If she's a billionaire war profiteer then her support is understandable, otherwise she needs to not only consider McCain but the kind of people he will staff his White House/cabinet with, not to mention the Supreme Court.
Remind her that the people the Republican party always aims to please first are big business and the extreme right-wing xtians who want to overturn R v. W.