



Dan, I don't know you and while I truly appreciate the humor in your post, it saddens me at the same time. I'm not disagreeing with your voicing your opinion, but I'd rather hear your words. Why do you think Vice President Cheney is missing empathy? Why do you feel President Bush isn't intelligent?



I'd like to respectfully offer that in my very humble opinion, it would be far more unique to come across a blogger with disagreements about the current administration who can put pen to paper and logically make his/her case for said disagreements. I am, however, grateful you live in a country that will not have you hanged for displaying our great nation's leaders in such a way that degredates and disrespects his position. But then you've probably already heard that argument, I'm sure.









At this point, it's hard to believe that there is anyone left out there who is able to blindly look past the fact that the administration lied and fabricated evidence to enter into an unprovoked and unjustified war that has killed more Americans than 9/11 and at least twenty times as many innocent Iraqi civilians - and in the meantime created a whole new generation of even more fervent anti-American terrorists. I don't think it's that far of a leap to imply that this would take an incredible lack of empathy AND intelligence.



I sound like a broken record by now, and "pen" has been put to "paper" COUNTLESS times by myself and by MILLIONS of others regarding this issue, but it seems as if there are still some people out there who cannot see past the grandstanding and posturing of the president and his inept cronies.



Yes, I'm lucky to live in a country where I have the right and the opportunity to openly mock our leaders, but this is due to no help from the current administration, who have done little except battle tirelessly to errode our civil liberties and to keep us living in fear of of the unknown or the misunderstood.



Add to this the administration's lack of respect for the environment, for not believing in basic human rights and equality for all, their endorsement of torture, their abysmal foreign relations policies that have put us out of favor with those who were once our closest allies, the doomed economy that has been burdened by unregulated corruption, the increasing jobless rate, the national dept that has climbed into the TRILLIONS, the highest tax rates in decades, the bungling clusterfuck that was Katrina, the caterting to the rich and the ignoring of the poor with ridiculously unbalanced "tax cuts", their utter lack of care for everything except their own political party's advancement of unchecked power, and I can't believe I even have to ask this one more time...



... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?



PLEASE watch something other than Fox News for five minutes. In fact, turn off the news altogether and go to the library.



