Our president, Vol. 2


I was flipping through sites and I found somewhere, I can’t remember now and I couldn’t find it when I went looking for it, but somewhere was a quote from a woman who said that she just felt that Bush/Cheney was more down home then Kerry/Edwards - that Bush/Cheney was more like regular people than Kerry/Edwards. You have four millionaire, how did two of them get to be “regular folks” and two of them get to be out of touch rich guys? And how on earth did Bush/Cheney get to be the “regular folks” millionaires?

The current president lists among his assets his Texas ranch, worth between $1 million and $5 million. He also has U.S. Treasury notes valued at $5 million to $8.7 million. He sold his share of the Texas Rangers baseball team in 1998 for more than $15 million.

When it comes to Rich People, he would know, he is a Rich Person.

In a speech in Virgina, GWB said of raising the taxes of the wealthy the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway"

One of the GOPs main thrust this election year is to paint the current administration as “Just One Of The Guys”, Wal-Mart shopping, bass fishin’, and pick up drivin’. While the Kerry/Edwards ticket is being painted as Rodeo Drive shopping, polo playing, elitist foreigner car drivers.

How much more wealthy and elitist could the Bush/Cheney ticket be? In what way are either of those two millionaires in any way shape or form “Just Guys?” Did one of them walk out of the house his own self to pay the guy who mows the lawn and that counts as them as “one of us”?. Cheney lived in Highland Park, a very wealthy, very exclusive section of Dallas that doesn’t even have a Wal-Mart. He’s rich, really, really rich. He was a major mover and shaker at Haliburton. Not the most down home position to have held, he wasn’t driving a fork lift down at the warehouse. How on earth are they convincing people that those two are even kind of “one of the people”? Bush himself did an excellent job failing at everything he ever did and then getting bailed out by his rich daddy, does that make him “One Of Us” when did failure make you a “regular guy” And why are so many people believing it? Why did they go bother the Amish? And the poor miners in Marquette? For what cause? These aren’t huge groups with massive voting fire power behind them. And the Amish? They are not a part of our world, they don’t want to be. What did he tell them? Tiny farms are cool? That he really likes Amish made furniture? That huge families rock?

The GOP has done more to hurt the “just folks” in the last four years they have done anything else. Who does GWB think held those all those textile jobs, the manufacturing positions that vanished over seas? Why isn’t this being pointed out? How can people just be blinded to this? Why aren’t the democrats following them around to set the record straight? If Bush/Cheney machine goes to the Amish, Kerry/Edwards machine should be there the next day, if Shrub went to Marquette, then Kerry/Edwards should have been there by sundown.

It has to be more then rock concerts in “battle ground” states, the message has to be there, the message has to be spread to beyound the the young undecideds. The older folks, the registered, voting Reagan Democrat Republicans must be reached and that means the machine has to go to them.

My only hope through all this, is that Shrub is all down with pick up driving, bass fishing, Wal-Mart shopping peeps, because like them, he will be out of his job soon too.