Bush like Custer

[The Crazy Canadian]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/08/01/565043.html

Sun, August 1, 2004

Bush like Custer

Eric Margolis says U.S. prez is an arrogant, wrong-headed fool in the mould of doomed soldier

By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor


What to make of presidential candidate John Kerry? Is he really an indecisive serial political flip-flopper and national security lightweight, as Republicans charge?

George W. Bush takes pride in being strong and decisive, comparing himself to FDR and Reagan. Republicans keep trumpeting the president is bold and resolute.

Bush has been decisive alright -- decisively wrong. The American leader he most closely resembles is Col. George Armstrong Custer, an arrogant, opinionated, headstrong fool who spurned all warnings, boldly and resolutely leading his command to disaster on the Little Big Horn.

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Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention was a masterful political tour de force, covering almost every issue in the election. The senator came across well and established himself with the public as a credible presidential candidate.

Still, while being reassuring, Kerry failed to emotionally connect with voters, to electrify them. He needed fire to go with the brains.

His unisex convention speech could have been delivered by either a Republican or Democrat. Two failed wars and a runaway deficit is no time for pussyfooting.

Kerry should follow the example of his intelligent, feisty wife, Teresa, who seems to have bigger cojones than her husband. She brings the sophistication, worldliness, and street smarts so lacking in the insular, even xenophobic, Bush administration.

The wild card in this race is bin Laden. Bush wins if U.S. forces can capture Osama before November.

[Massacure]

1. Osama would kill himself before being captured.

[2Design]

2. More people who like the way Teresa talks...I like she is

outspoken and not mealy mouth.

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Kerry should follow the example of his intelligent, feisty wife, Teresa, who seems to have bigger cojones than her husband. She brings the sophistication, worldliness, and street smarts so lacking in the insular, even xenophobic, Bush administration. <snip>

[RC]

3. B.S.

"Bush wins if U.S. forces can capture Osama before November"

bu$h is a loser criminal backing a lost unlawful cause.
Osama is dead, anyway.

[dand]

4. Custer at least had the cojones to wear the uniform honorably,

Bush is a cowardly little AWOL chicken-hawk. If the Kerry team can't get this across to the American public, they probably don't deserve to win. Thanks for the article.

[Gyre]

5. An excellent analogy.

:toast:

Gyre