Cape Karen
The political scene is just too bizarre and too active right now, to ignore. This week, here in Knoxville, TN, we had a quick visit from Vice-President Cheney. He is trying, in vain I'm afraid, to bolster the image of Mr. Bush, and all his other White House cronies.
The topic of his speech was, ". . . they shouldn't try to rewrite history; we must stay the course. . . ."
(Which begs the question: "What IS the course?")
I have to applaud the UT students, who somehow got inside with their banners, and voiced their war protest; right in the middle of Cheney's boring speech. That it was a small group of students is moot - because at least they had the courage to do it! It sure wasn't like the active protesting we did in the 60's, but they did succeed in getting on the local news, and they were shown being hauled out of the hall by local law enforcement. I think it is a show of hope that some of our youth cared enough to exercise their freedom of speech, that they raised their voices and their "Stop The War" banners.
Go UT!
Questioning, or disagreeing with his policies and actions, is seen by Mr. Bush as "sending the wrong message to our troops." It is said he is so depressed that he has gone into isolation, because of his low poll ratings and all the recent events on The Hill. He feels betrayed. Well, duh!? Supposedly, the only people he is conferring with on a daily basis are: Condolesa Rice, Karen Hughes and his wife. (Three loyal women he can easily manipulate?)
As far as U.S. citizens disagreeing with, or being outraged by, his actions - being 'seen' as disloyal, or harmful to his war efforts in some way - I totally disagree! To not protest, to do nothing, to remain apathetic and indifferent, as our fearless leader makes serious blunder after blunder, is sending the 'wrong message' to Washington, and to our troops. We have every right to be outraged and concerned about the direction he is taking this country. It is one pitiful, shameful, mess.
Just the fact that FEMA is now claiming to be too broke to pay the LA and MS residents their flood insurance claims, is enough to me to indicate that something stinks in D.C. Those folks paid their hefty premiums in good faith - and now they are left adrift while we continue to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into Iraq? That really smells!
I could make a long list of the reasons that 'we the people' should be standing on our rooftops, and loudly voicing our disgust and despair about what is going on in Washington ~ but that would take two or three days of blogging, and it would probably send me into a serious state of isolation, too.
Three more years. . . .O' dear God, three more years. . .
Posted by Karen at November 17, 2005 2:54 PM