In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bush 'Compassion' Agenda: A Liability in '04?
President Bush is running for re-election as a "compassionate conservative" who has sought to bring a new Republican approach to poverty and other social ills. Indeed, his campaign Web site is lush with a "compassion photo gallery" showing him reading to schoolchildren, helping out at a soup kitchen and visiting an AIDS treatment center in Africa.
Oh by the way, despite my post of a couple of days ago, it looks like there is one white kid and some Asians, I don't know if I missed that or if they updated the site because those photos had started to get some puplicity. Anyway, this article has some amaizng pieces:
"After three years, he's failed the test," said one prominent early supporter, the Rev. Jim Wallis, leader of Call to Renewal, a network of churches that fights poverty.
Mr. Wallis said Mr. Bush had told him as president-elect that "I don't understand how poor people think," and appealed to him for help by calling himself "a white Republican guy who doesn't get it, but I'd like to." Now, Mr. Wallis said, "his policy has not come even close to matching his words."
Yeah how do poor people think? I let Karl Rove think for me, I hear some people think with their own head. Heh Heh, back in college days my girl friend said I thought with a different body part. Heh. I miss college. I miss beer. Damn being an adult sucks... hey is there any footage of us blowing something up? That'll make me feel better.
Sorry... channeling Bush there for a second.
Okay but here is where it gets scary: "Even the president is not omnipotent," Mr. Bolten [White House budget director and formerly Mr. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser] said of the House opposition to the AmeriCorps money. "Would that he were. He often says that life would be a lot easier if it were a dictatorship. But it's not, and he's glad it's a democracy."
I glad Mr. Bolten feels the need to let America know that its President is glad America is a democracy. No really. That's important. Thanks for the warm fussies Mr. Bolten. Glad that Bush is willing to take the hard road of democracy, despite knowing that a dictatorshp would be easier. What a man.
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