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puella -> Meet the Press....ident, 2008???? (1/28/2007 7:01:17 AM)
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Thankfully, I managed to get my laundry done last night, and to have enough of my socks bundled up to load the Sunday morning Meet the Press cannon.
What are the most important, pressing issues of or nation this morning, as 7 more Americans were killed yesterday in Iraq, as the current President of our nation effectively told congress they do not matter and that he, and only he will make the designs regarding our nation at war, as we find out this past week that indeed, as the current President completely ignored the plight of his own people in his State of the Union speech, never once mentioning the victims of Hurricane Katrina, whom he used as an effective political tool when he promised to help them, a week after the devastation, or as the Vice President of the United States made a conscious decision not only to sacrifice one of his aides as a fall-guy, but that he was part and parcel of a movement to out an undercover CIA agent?
Why… it must be the Presidential election, which is 18 months away, of course!
Why did one of the arguably ‘premier’ Sunday morning news programs, and certainly one of the longest running, spend 20 minutes, a full 1/3 of its program, on launching a presidential candidate for an election that is a year and a half away?
How many more people’s lives and livelihoods will be sacrificed as a direct result of this current President’s failed policy and lack of ability in Iraq, in the ravaged gulf coast, in aiding the poor, the elderly and the uninsured?
Is it any wonder that one of the Vice President’s staff testified this week that Dick Cheney approved of going on this program because it is easily managed, easily controlled to spin out what information they choose?
Why are we spending so much time and money on a presidential election so far away, when every day we lose American citizens because of the gross incompetency of the president we are currently subject to obey?
Have we just gotten tired of being outraged? Are we just bored with having to deal with all the blunders and the death and destruction this administration brings in our names, that the idea of thinking about what might make change a in a year and a half seems like a more acceptable choice than actually demanding it? I am tired of ranting and despairing as well, but it is more disgusting to me that we are wasting our time and energies and money on possible candidates for the November 2008 election, and that we allow ourselves to be sidetracked so shamefully easily. We have to deal with the political crisis our country is in right this very minute. There is time for the glorious few who can raise their millions of dollars (which could be put to much better use) to dazzle us into buying their way into the white house after we take care of more prescient issues.
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