"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore !"

Note: Ok, normally I enter my comments here in italics to separate other people's comments from mine; but today's news just put me over the top. So I'm going to write plainly:

The "Bush 43" Administration is absolutely the least professionally competent, the most idealogically oriented, the nastiest politically, the least democratic, and the most hideously elitist group we have had running this country in my lifetime. They have brought out the worst in our society, in our political dialogue, in our international prestige, and our respect for the rule of law and adherence to the living Constitution.

They have wasted precious lives in an elective war against a country we had no international authority to invade. They have wasted the good will and sense of community that flowed to America after 9/11. They have squandered a once-in-a-lifetime $500 billion Federal surplus, and replaced it with a $400 billion dollar deficit. They have expended time, money and talent on devisive social issues instead of focusing on important concerns like border security, first responder and civil defense issues, global warming, nuclear proliferation, infectious disease transmission, genocide in the undeveloped world, on, and on.

As a nation, we might be frightened by the prospect of another terrorist attack on our homeland, or to our friends elsewhere in the world; but we must not allow that fear alone to guide our choice for the next administration. So called "partial-birth-abortion" affects at most a few hundred child-bearing women this year, whereas the flu vaccine shortage has the potential of indirectly killing several hundred times that many. Saying that genocide is going on in Darfur but essentially doing nothing to stop it other than to promise to send a few million dollars is obscene. Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Hungary, and England have each sent more direct and humanitarian aid per capita to Darfur than we have.

Unfortunately our much vaulted free press, and loyal opposition have rolled over in their willingness to accept, repeat, and tacidly support this Administration's political spin, manipulated scientific enquiry, unsupported conjecture, and outright lies. In some cases because they fear for their jobs and careers which can be vehemently attacked by Administration entities bent on preventing opposition to their actions.

As an American who has fought for this country in war, paid taxes, and been a productive citizen for many years, it is increasing painful to see what Bush 43 has fostered among us: a disrespect for pluralism, antipathy toward a diversity in faith doctrine and morality, an approval of unrestrained capitalism, and a willful disregard of and distaste for those who are slightly different in skin color, economic status, educational attainment level, or national origin than they are. Not everyone can have blond hair, blue eyes, gleaming white teeth, and a ranch home in the suburbs; but the real nastiness is this Administration has managed to convince a sizeable portion of the country that they are concerned about and working for the common man and woman, when their actions plainly prove the opposite.

There might be something you don't "like" about Sen. Kerry; but the things you should not stand for is what Bush 43 has done to this country during the past four years. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" And if you are one of the few who can answer yes to that, than consider your circle of friends...are they better off?