Posted on 06/09/2008 4:40:07 AM PDT by CWWren
Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans', not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.
I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.
The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't sink in.
Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security. We face real threats in the world.
Don't give me this 'blood for oil' crap. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Clinton established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.
That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'
Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops. Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet, it just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC, CBS or ABC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.
I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a Cat 5 hurricane approaching.
I could say more about your idiotic belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads. So, I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream of) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too.
That means Pelosi is your new President.
You asked for it - you can have her. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.
So that's it.
God bless what's left of America Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you - kiss my ass!
Trust me, my suggestion was rhetorical. To be honest, I'm not sure there was anything President Bush could've reasonably done. The Democratic PR machine saw Katrina as a political opportunity to roast the president, and to the dismay of conservatives everywhere, Bush never fought back.
Neither does Dick Cheney!
If they did they'd have brought the argument to drill for crude domestically to the citizenry long ago! In that, they're an utter failure.
As you and others well know, that inaction not only has caused skyrocketing fuel prices, but, coupled with the ethanol love fest by the 535 idiots in Congress, the price of everything else has become outrageous.
I’m with dfwgator. That last part of the sentence about Narlens is ridiculous. I liked where you were headed.
I disagree wholeheartedly!
New Orleans proved to many that individual responsibility is a term virtually unknown in places like the squalor known as New Orleans.
The city and state officials had their heads up their buttocks on this one. The central government does too damned much as it is and regardless of whether it's a catastrophe or not, the locals need to take care of business. The president has no business holing himself in the White House in order to devise a way to get these welfare hounds a nice trailer to live in and live much better than they were ever used to.
Agree with everything you’ve posted in #22, Mac!
“The president has no business holing himself in the White House in order to devise a way to get these welfare hounds a nice trailer to live in and live much better than they were ever used to.”
Of course not, but that’s not what I meant. I meant simply getting emergency personnel in there so we could possibly save some lives (remember, at the time this was going on, things seemed a lot more dire than they turned out to be). I still think it’s disgraceful that the media managed to get into New Orleans, but the bureaucracy couldn’t.
Your logic is astounding.
You refer, I suspect, to Governor Blank-oh...
Washington needs to take care of a few things well, but they can't continue to take care of everything poorly.
FEMA, remember, is the brainstorm of the lousiest president in our history...and that's a stretch.
Government agencies, supposedly designed to help citizens, are just another railcar the politicians have joined to the train that we must pull.
Yeah, her. Whatever that worthless beyotch’s name is. SHe and Nagin aren’t fit to pick corn out of a turd.
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