Friday, July 23, 2004

Presidential Auction 2004

For once, we can trust the judgment of Homeland Security chief, Tom Ridge that there will be multiple terrorist attacks prior to the election. Ridge said that they have obtained “credible information “that Al Qaida is planning attacks to “disrupt the democratic process”. (failing to mention that we have a Supreme Court that already achieves that very same objective.)

This time, I suspect, the warnings are real.

...Having considered this point from many angles, I concluded long ago that the only way Bush could stay in office was through “multiple attacks”. Neither the capture of Bin Laden, nor the discovery of the elusive WMD, nor the “Deibold-Republican” voting machines, nor the phony polling numbers, nor even the legions of groveling journalists and media types (that dote on Bush’s every word) are enough to save the Crawford Crackpot from electoral defeat in November.

...Another9 - 11won’t do the trick. It creates the risk that the election will still go forward in other areas of the country. This could produce the unfortunate affect of illuminating the degree of antipathy directed at our present incumbent.

Not good…not good at all.

The illusion of Bush’s popularity among rank-and-file Americans must be preserved at all cost. ( even if it means dressing him up in a flight suit, or putting a chain saw in his hands, or having him walk around with a “plastic turkey” in front of a carefully screened audience of rabid Republicans)

The “Dear Leader” must be loved by his subjects even while he is eviscerating their liberties and sending their sons to die for oil.

No, the only “rather unpleasant” option left to the administration is to create a sense of panic across the nation; a widespread feeling of terror that would allow for the “temporary” suspension of elections.

...In many ways, the “cult of the personality” that has been built around George Bush has been a dismal failure. No matter how you cut it, and no matter how many “high-powered” Madison Ave Public Relations gurus you put to the task, it’s still hard to make Cat Ballou look like Gary Cooper.

...And, that explains why the people in charge are looking for ways to “modify” the electoral process. (Ridge warned of “contingency plans” for the election in the event of a terrorist attack) Many of us, who have followed each minute detail of the corruption issuing from Washington, know (instinctively) that the Bush claque is not planning on leaving office.

...It’s safe to say that the only way you’ll get Rummy and Cheney out of their respective bunkers, is on a 6 foot plank headed for potters field.

They’re not leaving peacefully...



Ben Sargent

Bush won’t leave, because Bush can’t leave. The trail of evidence he would leave in his wake would mean a quick march up the gallows.

Yes, America’s great national nightmare will continue, but the world can hope that a 2004 “aborted” election will be a turning point in our collective consciousness.

I’m hopeful that it will.

P.S. Iraq’s new government (aka The Bush Administration) has requested that the UN weapons inspectors return to Iraq as a matter of “urgent necessity”.

Do you think we may have stumbled across the elusive WMD just in time for the Democratic Convention???

Wouldn’t THAT be a surprise?

Al Jazeerah column by Mike Whitney

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