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Every so often a speech that marks an executive eager, even craving, to hide policy catastrophe behind fig leaf of verbiage is made. Often, it contains a remark that becomes emblematic. For Jimmy Carter, it was the word "malaise" - because he could not use the power of the Presidency well enough to solve the problem.
That speech did not happen tonight, but, instead, the opposite happened, Bush became a laughing stock, as will anyone who bothers to defend the tissue of lies and deceptions which he continues to repeat. He has no other.
At this point, considerations for the campaigns I am working, or my own personal standing must be set aside. It is time for someone, someone with something to lose, come forward and state the obvious: we have, installed in our oval office, a man who is so unfit for the duties - by reason of a pathological dishonesty and complete disregard for the welfare of the citizens of this country - as to demand that we remove him, and his party, from power - and then use every law and organ of government to investigate the nakedly criminal underpinnings of that party. And exact precisely the punishments that they have so gleefully inflicted upon others.
There is no other alternative - any individual who can, backed by media and political system - state that Iraq is part of the war on Terror - is beyond hope. Any journalist, politician, general, writer, political operative or other so called public intellectual who can cling to such a statement is, equally, beneath contempt.
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