Index being laid out. I shall now rant.
Oct. 5th, 2004 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darklunaOn CNN just now, the anchor said that Cheney will be trying to remind people of how the administration dealt with the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Well, yeah. Because that's all they've fucking got.
Can't people see that how the administration acted that day is not an issue anymore? The real issue is how they've acted since, and what they've done in response, and most of all what they've tried to pass off as a response.
I remember being proud of Bush in the days immediately after 9/11. I wanted to believe he could rise to the occasion. But what's important to remember is that in the days after the attacks, there was really only one path, and it was so clear and right that anyone would have followed it. You mourn with us, you share our rage and pain, you promise to do something to fix it and punish the people who hurt us. That's the only thing you can do.
But to do that and then run off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the people who hurt us, all the while fucking things up at home so badly that our surplus has turned into a record deficit and you're the first president to have a net job loss since the Depression... probably no one else would have done that. It takes a special kind of stupid to do that.
I still feel that the good guys have the truth on their side, and all they have to do is tell it loudly and often. Since the first debate, they've been doing that. I just hope it's in time.
Well, yeah. Because that's all they've fucking got.
Can't people see that how the administration acted that day is not an issue anymore? The real issue is how they've acted since, and what they've done in response, and most of all what they've tried to pass off as a response.
I remember being proud of Bush in the days immediately after 9/11. I wanted to believe he could rise to the occasion. But what's important to remember is that in the days after the attacks, there was really only one path, and it was so clear and right that anyone would have followed it. You mourn with us, you share our rage and pain, you promise to do something to fix it and punish the people who hurt us. That's the only thing you can do.
But to do that and then run off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the people who hurt us, all the while fucking things up at home so badly that our surplus has turned into a record deficit and you're the first president to have a net job loss since the Depression... probably no one else would have done that. It takes a special kind of stupid to do that.
I still feel that the good guys have the truth on their side, and all they have to do is tell it loudly and often. Since the first debate, they've been doing that. I just hope it's in time.
