Bush’s Bullcrap “Peace and Prosperity”
Dubya says that only a vote for Republicans will bring us peace and prosperity. Hold the laughter for a moment. He really followed Mitt Romney’s statement about Democrats being friends of terrorists with a statement about Republicans being the path to peace and prosperity.
It seems appropriate today to detail what George Bush and the Republican Party have given us over the last 15 years or so. After all, George Bush himself is urging that you vote for Republicans if you want peace and prosperity. That sort of implies Bush and all those who cling to his policies, like Mitt Romney and John McCain, have helped bring the Bush era of peace and prosperity. Let’s examine that claim. Hey, it’s about as valid as the claim by Mitt Romney that a vote for Democrats in November is a vote for terrorists. But Richard covered the Romney ugliness quite cogently, and Romney will fade into well-earned obscurity soon anyway. Bush is going to have a whole library one day to document the “peace and prosperity” he’s brought our country. Here’s Bush’s words from the AP wire:
President Bush, rallying conservatives for a battle against Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, says “prosperity and peace” are at stake in the upcoming election for his successor.
“We have had good debates and soon we will have a nominee who will carry the conservative banner into this election and beyond,” Bush said in prepared remarks of a speech he was to give Friday to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“Prosperity and peace are in the balance,” the president said in speech excerpts the White House released on Thursday night. “So with confidence in our vision and faith in our values, let us go forward … fight for victory … and keep the White House in 2008.”
Let me be very clear. Bush has brought our country neither peace nor prosperity, though those two ideals were in abundance during the previous Democratic administration. Bush has brought us war and deficits, he has fomented international terrorism and devalued our mortgages. He’s intoduced incompetence as the hallmark of Republican governance and presided over rises in crime in big cities all over the country. Bush has squandered our good name in the world, and he’s advocated the torture of human beings. In the name of security he’s broken several laws designed to protect our civil liberties, and at the same time he’s gutted the reputation of the Office of the Attorney General, the folks who are supposed to protect our civil liberties. Finally, Bush had a chance, with the whole world backing us, to exact revenge on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. He failed.
Vote Republican and you are sure to get more war. More body bags coming home to our shores. More instability in the Middle East. You are sure to get more and higher deficits, and our national debt will surely rise. Vote Republican and you will get to keep Gitmo, and you’ll get more torture, more waterboarding, more countries around the world unwilling to trust America (that list is smaller since the Bushies started, that’s for sure). Vote Republican and more people will lose their homes to foreclosure. More citizens will lose their jobs. Eventually, the Fed will no longer be able to control the economy with interest rates, and we’ll see rising inflation. Yeah, folks, it will get to the point, if a Republican is running things, where insane Republican deficit spending will lead to inflation.
In New York there are actually vendors who have signs saying “Euros Accepted.” That’s third world concept, isn’t it? It used to be you’d land in a third world country and the locals would fall over each other to offer you goods in exchange for dollars. Now it appears that state of affairs in world economics has reversed, all under the watch of George Bush and his Republican helpers. Bush claims he’s a “prosperity” guy? He’s run this country like he ran those little oil firms he once owned, damned near into the ground.
For Bush to claim his party as the party of peace and prosperity is more than a crock. Bush is a traitor to the truth, and has been for a long, long time. We Americans need the truth in order to understand who to vote for. It is conceivable to my mind that a voter could understand the policies of Obama, Clinton, Huckabee or McCain to be better for our nation, both in trying to bring a peaceful end to Dubya’s endless and foolish war, and to keeping our economic house in order after Hurrican Dubyan and the Republicans swept trough wreaking havoc for seven long years. Yes, it is possible to be rational and think any of these candidates could accomplish these tasks. It is not possible to be rational and say that only Republicans can bring peace and prosperity, not after the eight years of peace and prosperity in the Democratic Clinton Administration, followed by the seven years of war, economic breakdown and governmental incompetence led by George Bush. If George Bush really thinks he and Republicans represent the only route to peace and prosperity, he is a traitor to the truth, but maybe to sanity as well.
Let’s be clear. Mitt Romney, as Richard so eloquently comments about, has said that Democrats help our enemies. Mitt Romney, as such, has damned himself as a traitor to America, for he has gone over the line in political discourse. Good riddance to Willard. George Bush’s comment has the same impact, and is also patently, factually false. Yes, these two are in the same camp, willing to tell any lie to curry favor, willing to make up anything to scare Americans into voting for incompetent Republicans.
If by peace you mean “bury your head in the sand anytime we get attacked, like the U.S.S. Cole, the FIRST WTC bombing, the Nairobi bombings, the Somalia gaffe, NATO bombing Serbia, etc, then by all means it was peaceful during slick willie’s reign. Oh, and you need to know that the economy is cyclical, slick willie was the beneficiary, and the 94 congress had something to do with it as well. Finally As for crime rising in the cities across the country, all goverment is local, and they are to blame, such as the democrat filth that voted in a mayor (street) that was already under investigation by the FBI BEFORE he was elected to a second term. Way to go filthidelphians!!! What did street do to repay the favor, oh yeah, he waited in line, then had a cop wait in line to get himself a new iPhone, while the murder rate was spiraling out of control….peaceful, hell yes it is peaceful, the only ones dying are those that signed up to fight for this country, you hippies from the 60’s, the pathetic losers that you are and were, can’t equate Iraq to Vietnam, in case you havent noticed, no one is paying any attention to you, not even your own party…….
Mike.
You are an excellent example of the effects of a lifetime of relentless propaganda.
The Greek word “apocalypse” is defined as the lifting of the veil. I reached my apocalypse after 911. May you reach yours soon.
Steve
OMG Mije -you want to point fingers at the DEMS and Clinton for every bad thing the Repubs do - who has been dominating the “sleeze and hypocrite” headlines in the last couple of years???Who was in office during 9/11 - REPUBLICANS - so explain to me how the DEMS aren’t going to keep us safe? You guys are such a bunch of head in the sand chickenhawks, perhaps all repubs should be rounded up and sent to the camps Bush wants to expand from GITO - oh yes, and the WE DONT TORTURE - is such bullshit - waterboarding is torture, the stress positions, lights an noise all night, forced nudity….you don’t think these things are torture? Okay, lets send you and the members of your family to try out these little “discomforts” - man that tune would change in a heartbeat! AWOL Bush and “I have better things to do Cheney - wow, what role models!!! Go stick your head back up your butt, and continue to listen to Ann Coulter or Rush,,,,,
Mike, if everything is cyclical according to you, it is a big coincidence that Republicans are always in charge spending money like drunken Yale cheerleaders when the economy experiences a downturn, at least in the last 20 years. As to crime, Clinton put cops on the streets, a program Bush cancelled.
I could go on, but you seem to like being persecuted, with your boys in office every time something goes bad. No, Katrina isn’t a Republican problem, the incompetence of the response was a Republican problem. Incompetence and bad luck. I’ll take competence and good luck.
This moron starts two wars and demolishes the economy, and then says “peace and prosperity are in the balance”?? Dumbya is so out of touch with reality, he is completely delusional and psychotic. They should send the Nice Young Men in the Clean White Coats for him NOW!