Friday, August 08, 2003
A clear sign that Bush's post- Sept. 11th honeymoon is well and truly over, Someone criticises Bush and the news sources cover it! It's nice to see at last, whether it's motivated by elections or not, people finally waking up from the 'to criticise is un-American, Big Dubya loves you' coma the administration hoped to smother everyone in permanently. Whether anyone is strong enough to beat Bush is another thing. But there's hope, look at the French. In the first round of their last presidential election the Far Right candidate came a surprise second place, this turned out to be due to a mixture of 'protest voting', people voting not expecting or wanting him to win, but to register their dissatisfaction with the current government. This mobilised people into frantic work, with the result in the second round the incumbent, Chirac, won resoundingly as people realised the danger of letting a fascist, as opposed to a bastard, become head of state. The parallels can be made here, this time Bush will be seeking to win and therefore ligitimise his illegal throne-squating of the last four years. Hopefully people will look at the lies he's said over Iraq and Afghanistan, the damage he's done to international relations, and the restrictions he's placed on civil liberties and the damage he's done to the country as he's tried to share the pies between all his cronies, and they will make a wise choice.
