Will George W. Bush follow in his fathers footsteps?
It was 1992. The economy was stalled. We were in a triple dip recession. The national deficit was up to 400 billion dollars a year even with robbing social security. The debt was projected to climb to 800 billion in four years and there was no hope in sight. President George Bush didn't have a clue. Bush had inherited what he correctly called "voodoo economics" from Ronald Reagan and he was stuck with it. The deficit climbed even faster under Bush. And Bush was clueless as to what to do about it. A man with no plan. Next to Bush, Dan Quayle didn't look so bad.
Then up from nowhere came Bill Clinton, the Governor of Arkansas. Raised up by a single mother in a little hick town called Hope, Bill Clinton at the age of only 15 decided he was going to go put and be president someday, and that's just what he did. He promised to work hard and take responsibility for the economy and turn this country around before we went bankrupt. And that's just what he did. In only 6 years we went from hopelessly in debt to having a surplus. Now we're paying down the national debt and our economy is stronger than it's ever been.
Now the concern is that the economy is growing too fast. They say it's
"overheating" and that they have to put the breaks on. The Fed is
concerned that unemployment is too low and there aren't enough people to
fill all the jobs out there. We went from the biggest deficit in history
to the biggest surplus in history. Welfare cut in half. Smallest
government this century. Clinton and Gore fixed the economy keeping the
promises they made when we elected them in 1992.
So what will Son of Bush do if he were elected president? Will he stay the course and build on the Clinton/Gore economic miracle? Or, will he go back to Reagan/Bush voodoo granting big tax cuts for the rich and paying for it with borrowed money? Do we stay with what works or go back to what doesn't? I'm for staying with what works!
If Clinton were running for a third term, which he can't do, he would win easily. In spite of all the scandals, Clinton is a more popular president that Reagan ever was. Maybe the most popular president in history. People like the job President Clinton is doing and they don't want a president who's going to screw it up. The economy is better than any time in history and it will be interesting to see what position Bush Jr. takes. Will he run on the platform of reversing the Clinton economic accomplishments and a return to voodoo economics? Or will he try to say that he's going to build on Clinton's accomplishments?
Bush and Cocaine
George W. Bush doesn't like to talk about Cocaine. Apparently he had a little drug problem when he was young. But that subject is off limits. If he can't talk about drugs now then what's he going to do if he's elected president? Will he talk about drugs then? What will he say? Will he pardon everyone else who's in jail for doing the same thing he got away with? Will he stand up to the Columbian Drug Lords? What will he tell children about Cocaine? Will he say, "Don't do Coke or you'll end up either in jail or the White house. (Maybe he'll give the name "White house" a new meaning.)
Cocaine is nothing new to the Bush family. When George's dad was president, they imported crack cocaine through the CIA to by guns for the Contra rebels. It wasn't just "guns for hostages", it was Coke for guns. Although President Bush claims he was "out of the loop" and didn't know what Oliver North was up to, I don't believe it. And with the pardons and immunity deals we'll probably never officially get to the truth. By that doesn't mean we're going to vote the Bush family back into power.
Maybe Bush will give new meaning to the term "White house". |
For what it's worth, John McCain is my favorite Republican. At least he's clean. I still like Gore but if Gore lost to McCain it wouldn't be a tragedy for the country. I don't know that McCain would be a good president, but at least he wouldn't be a bad president.
Bush opposes Free Speech
In spite of the Constitution and all the people who died defending our
freedom, George W. Bush has taken a strong stand against free speech on
the Internet. Saying "there ought to be limits to freedom," Gov. George
W. Bush has filed a legal complaint against the owners of a Web site,
gwbush.com that lampoons his
White House bid.
"There's a lot of garbage in politics, and, obviously, this is a garbage man," said Mr. Bush. Attorneys for the Bush presidential exploratory committee have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission seeking to have the owners post a disclaimer identifying who built the site and who is paying for it. Such a ruling would affect free speech and censor Internet sites like this site. If Bush gets his way, you would not be reading what you're reading now.
George W. Bush wants to eliminate free speech on the Internet. Come on George, take me on! |
Do we need a president that doesn't understand the fundamental concepts of freedom and the First Amendment to the Constitution? Do we want to elect someone who wants the government to decide what kind of ideas that we can express on the Internet? I don't think so. I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their effort to keep the Internet free and the government out.
Read my Lips II
I remember the 1988 campaign where President Bush made his famous
pledge, "Read my Lips - No New Taxes". Maybe what he was really saying
was "Know new Taxes". That's certainly that way it turned out. Well,
like father like son seems to apply here. Son of Bush is making an even
stronger pledge saying, "This is not only no new taxes, this is tax
cuts, so help me God."
I wonder if the "So help me God" is some kind of loophole. Maybe he's saying that he's only going to cut taxes if God helps him? Hard to say for sure. What I find amazing is how easily people who claim to be people of faith will so easily use the name of God to support a lie. I'm not even a Christian and I don't lie in the name of God.
I won't raise taxes. |
The Bush Record as Texas Governor
And we want him to do for America what he did for Texas?
Bush and the Moonies
Another issues that worries me about the Bush family is his connections
to the "Moonies". Most people don't know it but Sun Myung Moon is not
some small time eastern brainwasher with a few thousand hippie
followers. Moon is worth billions and has spent billions in America
influencing elections and the news media. Most people don't know it but
the Moonies
own the Washington Times. Moon founded the Washington Times in the early
1980s and has spent over 2 billion dollars subsidizing it. Moon claims
that through the Washington Times that he has greatly influenced
America. Moon takes
credit for SDI or Star Wars and he takes credit for getting George
Bush elected president in 1988.
President Bush has been on Reverend Moon's payroll ever since he left office, if not before. Bush has been the keynote speaker at several Moon mass weddings. In The Unification Church members get married when the church tells you to. The couples meet for the first time on their wedding day.
On November 25th 1996 the South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launched a new Spanish-language newspaper for the whole of Latin America with the backing of guest George Bush who praised Moon. The former U.S. president, guest speaker at a banquet to launch Moon's new publication "Tiempos del Mundo" (Times of the World). Bush then travelled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital Montevideo to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.
President Bush has become the paid mouthpiece of the cult leader, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, accepting huge sums of money to speak at Moonie mass weddings. |
"I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing," said Bush, who managed to avoid being photographed with the 76-year-old South Korean evangelist during his whole stay in Buenos Aires.
But Bush's claim of journalistic independence at The Washington Times
was false. Since the paper's inception in 1982, editors and reporters
have resigned in protest of editorial interference by Moon's
lieutenants. The first editor, James Whelan, resigned in 1984 confessing
to "blood on my hands" for giving Moon legitimacy.
Bush has sold out to this cult leader and is using the prestige of the Presidency of the United States of America to help enslave thousands of people into Moon's cult consciousness, for a mere $100,000. Since President Bush has taken in mass quantities of Moonie money, (a source close to Moon put the total as high as $10 million) it makes me wonder how much Moonie money is being funnel led into W's campaign. Is George W. Bush being funded by the Moonies? It would surprise me if he wasn't. What I want to know is, will Son of Bush embrace the Moonies like his dad did? I want someone to ask that question.
Lingering Questions about Dad
We live in a time where a person's karma is not entirely their own. Al
Gore for the most part lives in Clinton's shadow and has yet to
distinguish himself as an individual in the eyes of the public.
Clinton's reputation is in part being passed to Gore, and with good
reason. I think most people would assume that Gore supports just about
everything Clinton did. With the exception of Monica, which is clearly
Clinton's private behavior, Gore's reputation is Clinton's reputation.
Similarly there is an association, although not as directly, between George W. Bush and his father. When Clinton beat Bush in the 1992 election, a lot of the questions that were dogging Bush at that time were forgotten. We became focused on Clinton and Bush was history. However, if W. becomes the Republican candidate for president, it brings a lot of these questions back into the light. These questions, which I picked up from an article about Bush in Consortium News have now become relevant again. These questions include:
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