Your President gave a speech at the UN yesterday. Did you see it? Here is a little taste:

Events during the past two years have set before us the clearest of divides: between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change, and those who adopt the methods of gangsters.

Without a hint of irony, US President George Bush
Address to the United Nations
September 23, 2003

If not here is a critique, Bush to World: Drop Dead! It's a good thing he didn't go there looking for help or something. Apparently better speeches were given by Kofi Annan, Annan Trounces Bush at UN and Chirac. It is playing bad in America but how did we do around the world you ask? Here are a couple of examples, Arabs slam Bush UN speech and What the papers say . I don't understand why he went to the UN to make a speech like this in the first place. Just to say, see I told you so we were right to go into Iraq, now give us what we want?

It appears the President is in a cocoon. I have read a couple of things in the last few days about how he doesn't read the papers, he just gets briefed by his staff. Here is a link describing it: Sorry it's from right wing NewsMax, Why Bush Doesn't Read the Papers. I particularly like this excerpt:

"I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news," he told Hume. "And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world."

Jesus, he's like a monkey in a cage. All he gets to eat is what they throw in his cage. Apparently he doesn't think the people telling him what's happening color the news with their opinions. Sorry, I'm giving him credit for thinking. Maybe that explains why he can get up there and still talk about Saddam having WMD and links to Al Qaeda. When Condi or Andy or whoever gives him his daily news never shows him what the papers are writing about these subjects then how would he know?

So it looks like our country and the "coalition of the willing" are left to go it alone in Iraq.

Apparently the Republicans don't like it when Bush gets criticism, Republicans Strike Back After Criticism of Bush's Iraq Policy. Molly Ivins has a word or two to say about this as well, Fear and loathing in America.

I love the comparison to a robot in this one, Administration stuck in an infinite loop.

Two links from dailykos.com. More on touchy Republicans, Touchy, touchy, touchy. This one from what I believe is one of the most important issue facing our country. I think this shows what a problem this is, Diebold feels the heat. Sends out attack lawyers.

This is funny, A Thousand Points of Plan. It illustrates a classic political ploy, the (insert # here) point plan to fix a problem. Here is an excerpt from a section at the bottom, those poor workers:

BAD EXAMPLE: When Bush was stumping for his "jobs and growth" tax cut proposal in April, he went to Timken Co., a maker of steel bearings in Canton, Ohio. "The greatest strength of the American economy is found right here," Bush said then, predicting the tax cut would bring "more money for investment, more money for growth, and more money for jobs."

A month later, Bush signed a $350 billion tax cut, less than he wanted but still what he called "a bold package." And Timken? The company announced last week that it is cutting 900 jobs and lowering its earnings forecasts.

WELCOME TO GEORGE BUSH'S AMERICA
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 7:51 AM