Bush Would Sell Out Anyone

I just watched a swearing-in ceremony on CNN in which Barack Obama promised a greater openness and higher standards of honesty in his administration. Once again I felt renewed and fresh and hopeful about my government. Man, I do like this guy.

But just after that I arrived at the computer to continue making a few posts and I saw something else on Bush from a few days ago that just made me roll my eyes back into my head and offer a silent thank you that he's gone. He had no ethical standards - he'd sell out his mother to the devil if he thought it would further his own political ends.

Check this out, from Yahoo News...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.

"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.

You Can't Make This Up

Joe the Plumber gets a job as a reporter for some Conservative Blog and travels to Israel to report on the war in Gaza. The best part of this story is that in his first report as a reporter, he claims that reporters shouldn't be allowed to report from war zones. I guess he thinks that keeping the average "Joe's" back home ignorant of current events is the best way to keep them happy about war. And he should quit.

Fundamentalists Reveal Their Real Feelings

A guy named Tim Cerantola wrote a great piece (to my mind's eye) on the Op Ed News web page. Click the link to read the whole thing.

I watched this morning as the [fundamentalist] Christians cheerleaded Israel's invasion of Gaza from their pulpits. The 'end times' are upon us, they claim. Thank god I am not a believer(?)

There is a weird brand of Christianity in America these days. It’s a mixed up evangelical brew consisting of Jesus, bigotry and atomic war.

Like any decent group of Jesus loving people, these God fearing souls actually support war, torture, bombings, killing of innocent civilians and any and all American (and lately Israeli) military intervention everywhere, including the use of nuclear weapons – whatever it takes to get them to the Armageddon party – though oddly enough, they’re against terrorists and terrorism. Why? What’s the difference?