Bush: Vote Shows Weakness
While some have noted President Bush's amazement that we still hold elections "even in a time of war", a far more insulting statement in his weekly radio address shows how Bush really feels about last Tuesday's vote:
It should go without saying that one of the greatest strengths of our democracy is the ability to choose our leaders. And even though Bush makes that acknowledgment earlier in his address, to then go on and insinuate that by exercising this right Americans have somehow shown "a lack of will" only shows how little regard Bush holds for the will of the people.
So in what should have been an address to honor the men and women in uniform, who Bush only cursorily mentioned, it was instead used as a partisan platform from which to poke jabs at the "workings of American democracy".*
* Please tell me if I am reading too much into this because what prompted this rant was the headline "Bush: Vote doesn't signal US weakness" in my feed reader the other day.
(Filed at State of the Day)
The elections will bring changes to Washington. But one thing has not changed: America faces brutal enemies who have attacked us before and want to attack us again. I have a message for these enemies: Do not confuse the workings of American democracy with a lack of American will. (emphasis mine)
It should go without saying that one of the greatest strengths of our democracy is the ability to choose our leaders. And even though Bush makes that acknowledgment earlier in his address, to then go on and insinuate that by exercising this right Americans have somehow shown "a lack of will" only shows how little regard Bush holds for the will of the people.
So in what should have been an address to honor the men and women in uniform, who Bush only cursorily mentioned, it was instead used as a partisan platform from which to poke jabs at the "workings of American democracy".*
* Please tell me if I am reading too much into this because what prompted this rant was the headline "Bush: Vote doesn't signal US weakness" in my feed reader the other day.
(Filed at State of the Day)
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