Wednesday, October 17, 2007

CNN op/ed: "This president has diminished a great nation and may diminish it further"

Some quotes from today's op/ed by CNN's Lou Dobbs: Beware: the lame duck

  • Our elected officials in both political parties and the national media should worry less about the legacy of this lame-duck president and far more about the future of a great nation and people debilitated by his ruinous leadership.
  • I spend more time worrying about whether or not the United States can survive the remaining 15 months of his ebbing presidency.
  • Historians are certain to describe the first presidential administration of the 21st century with terms such as dissipation and perversion.
  • Although many conservatives refuse to accept the reality, George W. Bush is a one-world neo-liberal who drove budget and trade deficits to record heights while embracing faith-based economic policies that perversely require only blind allegiance to free markets and free trade, without regard for consequence.
  • This president pursues a war without demanding of his generals either success or victory and accepts the sacrifice of our brave young men and women in uniform while asking nothing of our people or the nation at a time of war.
  • This administration has permitted American businesses to hire illegal aliens, encouraged the invasion of 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and has given Mexico and corporate America dominion over our borders and our immigration policy.
  • Were it not for an outraged public, the Bush administration would have been happy to cede control of our ports to a Dubai government-owned company.

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