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Quote by: Praxius Before you know it, Bush will say something like he has to remain as Chief and Commander until the Iraq war is over, and screw up some law and make some loophole so he can..... |
Speculation is not evidence. I have yet to see a single shred of evidence that the Bush administration is planning on not relinquishing the Presidency once Bush's term is up.
The posturing about how other media is more accurate, like we in the US are somehow unable to access the internet...
The constant implications that the Bush admin is somehow more evil than it is incompetent... Comparisons to Nazi Germany and the like...
The baseless speculation...
All are attempts to give a lot more credit to and to demonize the government you don't like.
The Bush administration is incompetent, it is opportunistic, and in many cases has proven itself ignorant of the world around it. HOWEVER, making baseless claims and comparisons to an extreme evil in order to insult them only serve as to give them more support in the form of those of us who while are not happy with the administration, are neither happy with those trying to influence our feelings and make them worse as if they were not present from the beginning. By taking this too far, you make them appear persecuted and give credence to their claims of such.
With all of the bad things this administration has done, there is simply no excuse to jump off the deep end with histrionic speculation that sounds more like the plot of Star Wars than it does the US political atmosphere that has repeatedly shown itself more interested in maintaining the status quo than in attempting serious change of any kind.
Frankly, a lot of the scandals that Bush has found himself in the middle of are based upon things that past administrations have been doing for decades and his are merely too incompetent to cover up like his predecessors. This doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make him this Orwellian beast creating new ways to strip us of freedoms that have been missing for ages.