This morning I watched some of Bush's address in New Mexico. At one point, he said this (taken from the
transcript of his speech).
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And it's important for CEOs of big publicly-held corporations to understand that we expect them to learn the lessons of the past; that shareholders, that employees, that Americans will insist they be held to account if they ever lie, cheat and steal. We're overcoming that -- (applause.)
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I became so enraged that I began yelling at the TV. He has members of Enron's board on his staff. His vice president's former company, implicated in scandal during that man's term as CEO, received a cushy contract in post-war Iraq.
My sister and I were discussing the president tonight, and she said "You know, with Clinton I always felt like he knew what he was doing as president. I felt safe when he was in office. With Bush I'm afraid. I'm afraid he's making all the wrong decisions about the most important things. I'm worried for the future of my children." My sister is 19. She has no children yet, nor plans to have any soon. She fears that the repercussions of Bush's presidency will stretch that far into the future. While I don't worry that much (we recovered from Regan, after all) I don't relish the idea of 19 more months of Bush, let alone 67. If there is a just God, and he does indeed bless America, then he will free us of this man the next time around.