December 27, 2007

IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

PULLING FOR EDWARDS

Ralph Nader justified running a presidential campaign that he knew would hurt Democrats because he said Democrats and Republicans were just different versions of the same party. I don't think that's true. But some candidates, such as Clinton and Obama, are certainly more in the pockets of big corporations than I would like. John Edwards has a message that resonates with me. As a working class person, I believe John Edwards is speaking to the traditional Democratic Party values. This article is at www.thenation.com:

To a far greater extent than Obama or Clinton, Edwards has struck at the heart of issues that should matter most in the race to replace not just George W. Bush, but the Bush agenda of corporate giveaways, job-crushing free trade deals, war profiteering in Iraq, and subprime mortgage profiteering in Indiana, Idaho, Illinois and, yes, Iowa.
Edwards summed up his increasingly aggressive and powerful anti-corporate themes with a declaration: "What makes America is at stake: jobs, the middle class, health care, preserving the environment in the world for future generations.
"But all those things are at risk. And why are they at risk? Because of corporate power and corporate greed in Washington, D.C. And we have to take them on. You can't make a deal with them. You can't hope that they're going to go away. You have to actually be willing to fight. And I want every caucus-goer to know I've been fighting these people and winning my entire life. And if we do this together, rise up together, we can actually make absolutely certain, starting here in Iowa, that we make this country better than we left it."
IT'S NOT "BUSH HATING"
I see the phrase "Bush haters" in letters to The Fresno Bee all the time. Right-wingers want to trivialize all the justified anger we feel about this administration and the damage it has done to the country by reducing our anger to a personality contest. I wouldn't like George W. Bush under any foreseeable circumstances, but it is the absolute disregard for ethics, morality, and the Constitution that outrages me the most. It is all the innocent blood that has been shed in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the destruction of our credibility around the world and the failure to do anything about the threat of global warming. My anger extends far beyond George W. Bush. It's all the people who enable this administration, who even shout approvingly of its despicable policies. This commentary by David Michael Green is at www.regressiveantidote.net:
Regressives like to call people like me Bush-haters, and so it is important to address that claim before proceeding, because the entire intent of hurling that label at the president’s critics is to undermine their credibility. If you simply hate the man, they imply, you’re not rational, and your critiques can be dismissed. But it isn’t that simple - not by a long shot. First, it should be noted that the regressive right is far wider a phenomenon than just one person. It currently includes an entire executive branch administration, almost (and, just a year ago, more than) half of Congress, a majority of the Supreme Court and probably a majority of the lower federal courts, a biased-to-the-point-of-being-a-joke mainstream media, and tons of lobbyists, think tanks and profitable industries.