“In 19 months George Bush will be a private citizen, giving speeches to insurance executives. America, however, will have to move on and restore its place in the world. To do this we must first tackle the consequences of our foreign policy of fear. Having spooked ourselves into believing that we have no option but to act fast, alone, unilaterally and pre-emptively, we have managed in six years to destroy decades of international good will, alienate allies, embolden enemies and yet solve few of the major international problems we face.” — Fareed Zakaria
“Perhaps the most hopeful sign for the United States is that alone among industrial nations, we will not have a shortage of productive citizens in the decades ahead. Unlike Germany, Japan and even China, we should have more than enough workers to grow the economy and sustain the elderly population. This is largely thanks to immigration. If America has a core competitive advantage, it is this: every year we take in more immigrants than the rest of the world put together.” — Fareed Zakaria
Fareed further observes ….
More troubling than any of Bush’s rhetoric is that of the Republicans who wish to succeed him. “They hate you!” says Rudy Giuliani in his new role as fearmonger in chief, relentlessly reminding audiences of all the nasty people out there. “They don’t want you to be in this college!” he recently warned an audience at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. “Or you, or you, or you,” he said, reportedly jabbing his finger at students. In the first Republican debate he warned, “We are facing an enemy that is planning all over this world, and it turns out planning inside our country, to come here and kill us.” On the campaign trail, Giuliani plays a man exasperated by the inability of Americans to see the danger staring them in the face. “This is reality, ma’am,” he told a startled woman at Oglethorpe. “You’ve got to clear your head.”
Very articulately, Fareed examines the moronic Republican Fear-Mongering, chest-thumping and the Democratic “Timidity” — both impediments to cleaning up the Bush mess. He also offers insights on ways by which to restore America’s good standing among world nations — in this brilliant article: Beyond Bush — What the world needs is an open, confident America.
What amazes me is that the current crop of Republican presidential candidates have adopted the same Fear-Mongering tactics that George Bush so perfectly “precisioned,” and used to “steal” two elections — a tactic which has led to catastrophic failure, domestically and internationally. Are Americans stupid enough to fall for this divisive nonsense one more time?
Other than the right-wing nuts — social conservatives, neoconservatives, KKK, Minutemen, miscellaneous bigots, the irrational, the amoral — in general, those who are constantly in a “nativity” stupor, laced with “racist venom,” — will “The Sane Portion of America” allow itself to be hoodwinked, cajoled, race-baited, fear-mongered and, immigrant “Leprosied,” into voting Republican again?
These “satanic” and savage “polynomial positioned” morticians, calling themselves Republican presidential candidates, need to be thoroughly defeated, in order to save America from becoming a despised beast.
We will find out in nineteen months.
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