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Gilligan · Sep 13, 2005, 12:03 am

To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:

On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it feel?

How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?

That's right. Horse shows.

I really want to know -- and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all due respect -- how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown for your safety? C'mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don't start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe.

I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America.

Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer?

When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure?

When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there?

Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people?

Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD?

With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home?

Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake.

That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water.

It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!"

My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world?

And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain?

Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.

Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you've sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away?

I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose?

I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show.

Yours,
Michael Moore

Prometheus · Sep 13, 2005, 12:07 am

::Snore::

I don;t particularly like bush, but this is just silly. MM is so last year. He is over. He is just a child looking for attention. There is a wacko fringe that espouses his radical zealotry, but no one takes them seriously. The good points that MM has (and he has them) are totally obliterated by his scarcastic, condescending, and ascinine overstatement of his case. The woman doeth proset too much. His credebility is abysmal.

RVonse · Sep 13, 2005, 01:02 am

What parts did you think were too overdone Prometheus? It sounded pretty level headed to me but I admit some bias.

PatrickHenry · Sep 13, 2005, 01:10 am

I like the way Moore slags Bush. It's humorous. But he's a dang leftie, and thinks guns are bad. He also just gives Bush the bennies of the doubt on 9/11. His profitable movie, Fahrenheit 911 is what is known as a "limited hangout" in the underhanded government world. He outs ol' Dubya, but not TOO much. Part of the blasted coverup, really. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/fre...eventable.html

Morgan_Freeman · Sep 13, 2005, 01:19 am

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Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people?

Which services would those be?

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Why do you hate our federal government so much?

Because its a cancerous wasteful behemoth that takes our money and seeks to stifle our freedom at every turn.

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You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government.

If only that were true.

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Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD?

Well... they haven't been cut, but yes, I think cutting them would be a good idea.

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With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea?

... is Michael supporting the war expedentures now??

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Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home?

No.

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Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us?

Yes, he did. He also condemned violence. Which means you, Michael, are going to hell for supporting the coercive redistribution of wealth.

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We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together.

And you are the biggest proponent of it.

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The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.

Because wackos like you insist on more, rather than less, government meddling in the health care market.

Morgan_Freeman · Sep 13, 2005, 01:20 am

And the rest of it is just partisan hackery....

I'm sure John Kerry would have been so much better than Bush...
:rolleyes:

RVonse · Sep 13, 2005, 01:27 am

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And the rest of it is just partisan hackery....

I'm sure John Kerry would have been so much better than Bush...
:rolleyes:

Maybe not but I think John McCain or even Ross Perot would have been.

There was nobody to choose from last election.

Morgan_Freeman · Sep 13, 2005, 01:28 am

John McCain, agreed. If he runs in 2008, I'll vote for him.

RVonse · Sep 13, 2005, 01:34 am

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Which services would those be?.

How about the mercenaries in New Orleans who are soon to be our new masters.

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Because wackos like you insist on more, rather than less, government meddling in the health care market.

Health care in the U.S. is so broke right now, it would be very hard to believe that anything could possibly make it worse.

Morgan_Freeman · Sep 13, 2005, 02:31 am

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How about the mercenaries in New Orleans who are soon to be our new masters.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

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Health care in the U.S. is so broke right now, it would be very hard to believe that anything could possibly make it worse.

Oh, it can always get worse.

tinybear · Sep 13, 2005, 04:27 am

John McCain. Yay! If only he were President.

Dirty Name · Sep 13, 2005, 10:14 am

1) John McCain is an attention seeking nutjob.

2) Jesus commanded us to help the poor. He did NOT command the government to do so. Anyone who believes otherwise is lazy and stupid. Having your money taken from you by the government just to help poor folks is NOT what Jesus had in mind. He wants voluntary service.

3) Blaming GWB for any of the crap that's going on in New Orleans is the worst example of partisan hackery I've seen since... well, since F9/11.

**Chris** · Sep 13, 2005, 10:47 am

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1) John McCain is an attention seeking nutjob.

2) Jesus commanded us to help the poor. He did NOT command the government to do so. Anyone who believes otherwise is lazy and stupid. Having your money taken from you by the government just to help poor folks is NOT what Jesus had in mind. He wants voluntary service.

3) Blaming GWB for any of the crap that's going on in New Orleans is the worst example of partisan hackery I've seen since... well, since F9/11.

Been listening to Rush Limbaugh lately?

One of the many things I hate about Rush is his blasting of McCain. He is a mindless zombie. He wouldn't be blasting McCain if McCain had been elected in 2000. He would be defending him.

Dumbass

RickSp · Sep 13, 2005, 10:54 am

Moore is amusing. He is unfair but he is funny. I don't agree with Moore on many many issues but certainly prefer him to Bush under any circumstances.

Sep 13, 2005, 12:03 am	#1 (permalink) (top)
Gilligan Molten Ash Posts: 104	To Conservatives From Michael Moore To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it feel? How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows? That's right. Horse shows. I really want to know -- and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all due respect -- how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown for your safety? C'mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don't start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe. I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America. Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer? When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there? Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people? Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD? With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake. That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!" My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world? And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever. Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you've sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away? I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show. Yours, Michael Moore "Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." - Adolf Hitler

Sep 13, 2005, 12:07 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
Prometheus Glad to be back! Location: Vernal, UT Posts: 1,725	::Snore:: I don;t particularly like bush, but this is just silly. MM is so last year. He is over. He is just a child looking for attention. There is a wacko fringe that espouses his radical zealotry, but no one takes them seriously. The good points that MM has (and he has them) are totally obliterated by his scarcastic, condescending, and ascinine overstatement of his case. The woman doeth proset too much. His credebility is abysmal. Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it. -Søren Kierkegaard

Sep 13, 2005, 01:10 am	#4 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,455	I like the way Moore slags Bush. It's humorous. But he's a dang leftie, and thinks guns are bad. He also just gives Bush the bennies of the doubt on 9/11. His profitable movie, Fahrenheit 911 is what is known as a "limited hangout" in the underhanded government world. He outs ol' Dubya, but not TOO much. Part of the blasted coverup, really. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/fre...eventable.html "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams

Sep 13, 2005, 01:20 am	#6 (permalink) (top)
Morgan_Freeman Illogic Hunter Location: Seattle Posts: 2,385	And the rest of it is just partisan hackery.... I'm sure John Kerry would have been so much better than Bush... :rolleyes: "A republic, if you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin Free State Project freestateproject.org

Sep 13, 2005, 01:28 am	#8 (permalink) (top)
Morgan_Freeman Illogic Hunter Location: Seattle Posts: 2,385	John McCain, agreed. If he runs in 2008, I'll vote for him. "A republic, if you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin Free State Project freestateproject.org

Sep 13, 2005, 01:02 am	#3 (permalink) (top)
RVonse Igneous Magma Posts: 568	What parts did you think were too overdone Prometheus? It sounded pretty level headed to me but I admit some bias.

Sep 13, 2005, 04:27 am	#11 (permalink) (top)
tinybear Volcanic Erupter Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 7,333	John McCain. Yay! If only he were President.

Sep 13, 2005, 10:14 am	#12 (permalink) (top)
Dirty Name The Truth Posts: 1,724	1) John McCain is an attention seeking nutjob. 2) Jesus commanded us to help the poor. He did NOT command the government to do so. Anyone who believes otherwise is lazy and stupid. Having your money taken from you by the government just to help poor folks is NOT what Jesus had in mind. He wants voluntary service. 3) Blaming GWB for any of the crap that's going on in New Orleans is the worst example of partisan hackery I've seen since... well, since F9/11. The Secular Case Against Gay Marriage: http://www.volconvo.com/forums/socie...tml#post348891

Sep 13, 2005, 10:54 am	#14 (permalink) (top)
RickSp Volcanic Erupter Posts: 9,589	Moore is amusing. He is unfair but he is funny. I don't agree with Moore on many many issues but certainly prefer him to Bush under any circumstances. Rick "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis