Comments on: Coexisting: Bush Gets It

By: Xman

Xman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:02:26 +0000

Boy, am I glad to hear you guys talk like this. I was beginning to feel like the Lone Ranger.
Truth is a sticky concept. I’m sure Bush listens to his buddies (the patriotic corporate war mongers) and they tell him what a great job he is doing and can point to a bunch of things that work for them and residually for the good old USA and you and me. Truth. Their truth makes him feel good and so he wants to keep doing it. Just look at the deer in the headlights look on his face or listen to that jumbled, confused, pea sized brain stutter out an answer (any answer, cause a President must have one) and you can see he is also trying to find the light in the dark. Cheney says some good @#$%, Wow! he says, lets go with that! Just like us, he wants out of the mess. Just like us he wants the magic word, bean, potion, etc. that will set us all on the road to a great big patriotic group hug. But, that way can be disaster…when one is so desperate for “something”. Like Lynne says, Hitler made a lot of sense, but what a cost.
I appreciate the need for balance and I hunger for it too. BUT, I will not give up my hard fought for developing ability to read between the lines, smell BS, and see red flags. I will not ever trust any leader completely, again. Like in a relationship, I may cut a little slack allowing for being a human, but when one behaves like our government leaders and business leaders, it looks like the whole barrel of apples needs to be composted.
That is balance too.

There is a saying I have heard:
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything”.
I guess it comes down to what standards do you have and how well you follow them. Or, if you have any standards at all.

Bush and his boys seem to want to follow nature: Law of the Jungle.
That doesn’t seem to be working for those of us who post here.
I hope that is not the balance that we all have to accept.

By: JoeC

JoeC — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:48:06 +0000

> In another universe Bush is just a loser somewhere in Texas.

Hahahaha…too funny, and a pretty mind blowing link. Sometimes I feel like a dog trying to understand how a tv works…we just don’t have the mental capacity to comprehend the complete, true nature of the universe. We can see little bits of it, and hold small pieces in our brains, but just don’t have the neuron power to hold the entire picture at once.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:06:29 +0000

Here is something to be positive about. In another universe Bush is just a loser somewhere in Texas.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:02:35 +0000

Even Hitler has his good points but it doesn’t mean I like him. :)

By: Indigobusiness

Indigobusiness — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:28:12 +0000

I think it goes beyond candor, to the cultural realization that genuine patriotism is founded in a devotion to the pursuit of truth, and not the facade of politics and propaganda.

But, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said, Joe, and I’ll admit my persistent urge to listen to the liars in hope of finding some way to respect those I wish I could. I want to believe in the uprightness of my govt, etc, but not to the point of delusion. It is easy to lose one’s moorings in the info/disinfo crush, and the Stockholm syndrome allusion you made is apt. Regardless of desires, Americans must bite the bullet and look on this dilemma with a clear, objective eye, or else we’re all soon sunk.