From: Robert Comer 

There's no choice in the matter about what I believe, there's too much evidence.

--
Bob Comer


On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:18:00 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:

>Eh. All of his happy horseshit has been argued against, and years ago --
>continue to believe it if you want. 
>
>
>"Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>news:e8v223de7rdvnlnqucvgnlh695jhf3av0q{at}4ax.com...
>> Sounds like he's a realist to me.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:08:09 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>>Sounds like Lee "bail me out" Iacocca is in
full-blown Bush Derangement
>>>Syndrome -- a shame.
>>>
>>>"John Beamish"  wrote in message
>>>news:op.tqsvcasdm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>>>
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehaveallthelead
ersgone
>>>>
>>>> On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other
>>>> time
>>>> in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of
the ashes.
>>>> Where was George Bush? He was reading a story about a pet
goat to kids
>>>> in
>>>> Florida when he heard about the attacks. He kept sitting there for
>>>> twenty
>>>> minutes with a baffled look on his face. It's all on tape.
You can see
>>>> it
>>>> for yourself. Then, instead of taking the quickest route back to
>>>> Washington and immediately going on the air to reassure the panicked
>>>> people of this country, he decided it wasn't safe to
return to the White
>>>> House. He basically went into hiding for the day-and he told Vice
>>>> President Dick Cheney to stay put in his bunker. We were
all frozen in
>>>> front of our TVs, scared out of our wits, waiting for our leaders to
>>>> tell
>>>> us that we were going to be okay, and there was nobody home. It took
>>>> Bush
>>>> a couple of days to get his bearings and devise the right
photo op at
>>>> Ground Zero.
>>>>
>>>> That was George Bush's moment of truth, and he was
paralyzed. And what
>>>> did
>>>> he do when he'd regained his composure? He led us down the road to
>>>> Iraq-a
>>>> road his own father had considered disastrous when he was
President. But
>>>> Bush didn't listen to Daddy. He listened to a higher
father. He prides
>>>> himself on being faith based, not reality based. If that
doesn't scare
>>>> the
>>>> crap out of you, I don't know what will.
>>>>
>>>> A Hell of a Mess
>>>>
>>>> So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war
with no plan
>>>> for
>>>> winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest
deficit in
>>>> the
>>>> history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia,
>>>> while
>>>> our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health
care costs.
>>>> Gas
>>>> prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy
>>>> policy.
>>>> Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle
>>>> class
>>>> is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for
>>>> leadership.
>>>>
>>>> But when you look around, you've got to ask: "Where
have all the leaders
>>>> gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators?
Where are the
>>>> people
>>>> of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common
sense? I may
>>>> be
>>>> a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
>>>
>

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