BUSH TOURS GULF STATES

[mburbank]

Add to what Kev just said the lie on top of it. If we have plenty of troops and national guard to have a war in Iraq and do what comes up at home, and the war in Iraq has no impact on responding to disaster at home why are we hiring private security?

I know, just politics, and I do get that, how do you know a politician is lieing? Their lips are moving. But see, even while I accept that, a line has to be drawn somewhere. Everything a politician does is just politics. At some point you have to say "Look, I know you think sodomizing corpses to summon demons is going to somehow help out your party down the road, but it's really wrong and you shouldn't be allowed to do it. " Actually, I'd kind of like to draw the line PRIOR to demon summoning. Politcians will often do whatever they can get away with, and we let them get away with a fuck of a lot.

And by the way, I would totally count on John Kerry to save my life over W. If I was Trent Lott's front porch, W might save me. Things being the way they are, I doubt he'd even see me.

And yeah. I think the elected leader of the richest nation on earth may have no speciffic obigation to ressucitate me personlly should I get a cramp and drown in the ol' watering hole, but when a whole city full of the nations poorest, weakest citizens are at risk of their lives, I'd like a president who lept into action and marshalled an effort to save as many people as possible. Not one who sorta slowly ramped up to it by way of taking a few last days of vaca, doin' a couplea fund raiser and diddlin on a bran' new gift gee-tar.

I guess it comes down to what you think the nature of leadership is and what you think government is for.