Yes, Mr. Bush, Mugabe's Government is "illegitimate", but so is yours!

By Bill Hare

Created Jun 29 2008 - 1:50pm

Is George Bush so far removed from reality that he fails to see how vulnerable he is when he calls the ruthless and undemocratic government of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe “illegitimate”?

Mugabe has something in common with George Bush in that he has legitimacy problems on his own behalf and achieved “victories” in 2000 and 2004 amid ruthless and undemocratic practices that were aimed at African Americans.

Bush’s own brother Jeb, as governor of Florida, teamed up with then Secretary of State Katherine Harris to create a successful scheme to disenfranchise thousands of African American voters in the Sunshine State.

As a result the vote was close enough to allow the Federalist Society to prevail with a U.S. Supreme Court majority of one to shut down a democratic recount in that crucial and deciding state and throw the election to Bush.

Four years later another secretary of state hatched a scheme with the cooperation of Bush’s chief lieutenant Karl Rove and their minions to deprive African Americans of the right to vote in the crucial and deciding state of Ohio.

The pathetic element of the Ohio effort was that the secretary of state in question on that occasion was an African American, Ken Blackwell, who had designs on the governorship in the next election.

Thankfully there was some ultimate justice as Bible pounding right winger Blackwell received a pounding from the voters and Ted Strickland was elected governor in a huge landslide.

In Florida a measure of justice occurred when Katherine Harris was overwhelmingly embarrassed in her effort to unseat Senator Bill Nelson.

George Bush was the recipient of two presidential “victories” by theft.

Then again, theft is proclaimed as a virtue by the Bush-Cheney neoconservative team.

After all, what was the invasion of Iraq but gigantic theft coupled with death and destruction, a successful effort to seize the nation’s rich oil deposits and place Halliburton, Bechtel and other New World Order favorites in position to grab the spoils accompanying power?

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Bill Hare

