Are They Underestimating George W. Bush
Ken Hughes
October 28, 2005
How many times have we seen the President come out on the winning side of media speculation? More often than not, the Presidents slow responses prove to be the better choices in judgment. This president isn’t nearly as concerned with satisfying the media and his critics approval as he is getting it right. Poll numbers mean little to him. No president can be 100% right and on top of things all the time. That’s why the founding fathers divided the government into three separate but equal branches. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, making no one branch subservient to the other. That’s why George Washington chose to serve only two terms as president, to dispel any fear he would decide to become a King in a third or fourth term. Knowing that would upset the protections given in the constitution.
In recent years, congress has abdicated much of their responsibility to the bureaucracy and the courts. They rely heavily on media coverage to asses their opinions, decide their path, and create their talking points for the day. Incidentally, this applies to both houses and both isles of congress. When the cost of a single campaign surpasses what a candidate can expect to earn in that position in a lifetime perhaps it’s time for the voters to make some changes.
Today we set in anticipation of a media created incident that should never have been, Karl Rove, and Lewis Libby’s indictment or not. How many times have we seen special prosecutors investigate only to find there was no crime and go on to convict the target for a misstatement or lack of memory, Bill Clinton was prosecuted and impeached for his clever use of words, not that he committed a crime. Martha Stewart was prosecuted for making false statements to a grand jury not that she committed a crime. There’s any number of indictments that never should have been made. The special prosecutor position has run amuck. It’s becoming a deterrent to attracting good men and women to government service. It’s one more of those tools of the politics of personal destruction running rampant in the Washington Beltway. The country can ill afford a political ploy with such distractive power.
It’s come to the point when the voters make a choice it’s never good enough for the opposition. Since Ronald Reagan became President, the opposition has done their best to discredit president’s administrations. Republicans and Democrats alike play fast and loose with their powers when they hold all the cards. The media’s always there to fan the flames. There was a time when print, voice, and visual news reporting were our only source of information informing us of our government’s doings. For the most part those old reporters did a good job, that no longer the case. Fortunately, we have a new source of information, the Internet.
The Internet is free of government interference. That is in question as the UN and other international organizations conspire to take over what America created and owns. If our government, their government, or any government gains control of issuing internet domain names we’ll see another of our freedoms taken away from us, we’ll also see our words taxed.
These are things President George Bush is working to give back to the American people. The freedoms our founding father guaranteed and liberalism is denying us. It would go a long way to accomplishing these goals if there were an honest media free of bias and speculation.
In recent years, congress has abdicated much of their responsibility to the bureaucracy and the courts. They rely heavily on media coverage to asses their opinions, decide their path, and create their talking points for the day. Incidentally, this applies to both houses and both isles of congress. When the cost of a single campaign surpasses what a candidate can expect to earn in that position in a lifetime perhaps it’s time for the voters to make some changes.
Today we set in anticipation of a media created incident that should never have been, Karl Rove, and Lewis Libby’s indictment or not. How many times have we seen special prosecutors investigate only to find there was no crime and go on to convict the target for a misstatement or lack of memory, Bill Clinton was prosecuted and impeached for his clever use of words, not that he committed a crime. Martha Stewart was prosecuted for making false statements to a grand jury not that she committed a crime. There’s any number of indictments that never should have been made. The special prosecutor position has run amuck. It’s becoming a deterrent to attracting good men and women to government service. It’s one more of those tools of the politics of personal destruction running rampant in the Washington Beltway. The country can ill afford a political ploy with such distractive power.
It’s come to the point when the voters make a choice it’s never good enough for the opposition. Since Ronald Reagan became President, the opposition has done their best to discredit president’s administrations. Republicans and Democrats alike play fast and loose with their powers when they hold all the cards. The media’s always there to fan the flames. There was a time when print, voice, and visual news reporting were our only source of information informing us of our government’s doings. For the most part those old reporters did a good job, that no longer the case. Fortunately, we have a new source of information, the Internet.
The Internet is free of government interference. That is in question as the UN and other international organizations conspire to take over what America created and owns. If our government, their government, or any government gains control of issuing internet domain names we’ll see another of our freedoms taken away from us, we’ll also see our words taxed.
These are things President George Bush is working to give back to the American people. The freedoms our founding father guaranteed and liberalism is denying us. It would go a long way to accomplishing these goals if there were an honest media free of bias and speculation.
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