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Quote by: Nono brien, your point about 2000/2004 being nothing new is well taken (did JFK really beat Nixon in 1960? etc.). What grosses me out is the flagrant nature of Bush's election-stealing. That and the agenda he's used his most likely illegitimate presence in the White House to promote. |
Perhaps Bush's more flagrant nature may be due to perceptions ratched up by the difference in the media that covered these elections and the Kennedy Administration itself. For example, the Bay of Pigs debacle in the Kennedy Adminstration, if happened today, would be flashed around the world in a millisecond. I don't recall the press exploiting the story of this clearly illegal action against Cuba. It was surely reported but not exploited by the media to condemn him or his policies. The press used to have a unwritten code of respect when it came to the White House. It probably disappeared during the Nixon Administration.
Unfortunately we are stuck with GWB until early 2009, so we have to make the best of a bad situation. The elections of 2006 will tell a new tale in the electorate. Congress needs to step up to the plate and use their power to enforce the "checks and balance" against a Executive branch that continues to violate the Constitution and the will of the people. Until then, or January of 2009, there is little we citizens can do to stop this Administration from running roughshod over the Constitution of the US.