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Harvey Wasserman Bush wins Triple Trifecta as worst president ever February 16

This is the worst piece of garbage I have seen yet about Pres. Bush.

Wasserman article

Mr. Wasserman,

Nice piece: www.truthout.org/docs_04/021904I.shtml.

Though friends roll their eyes, I've never doubted for a moment in the past 2.5 yrs that GW Bush will be known as *the* Dot-Com President of the nation.

As things start to get more interesting, just remember:

ALL warfare is psychological warfare...There is no other kind. Denials of this assertion are exposed as debate about tactics.

Regards,
Paul
Chicago

But He's the Wizard

It has occurred to me that President George W. Bush would be a shoo-in to play any of the main characters in The Wizard of Oz.  I am sure the part of Scarecrow (If I only had a brain) has already popped into the minds of everyone reading this. But a lack, at the very least, of mental preparedness and rigor is not the only characteristic qualifying the President for a leading role in this children's classic. How about auditioning for Tin Man, who had no heart? The total and callous disregard of the President for anyone not falling into the top one percent of this country's earners, not to mention his complete lack of compassion for those who are not working at all, certainly qualifies Bush for this important, pivotal and mechanical role. And last but certainly not least, the revelation that this President also cowered behind (maybe; there is no definitive proof that he even fulfilled his National Guard requirements and did this much) a pile of paperwork in Alabama rather than upgrade his air skills and join his comrades in the war in Vietnam, tells me that the part of the Cowardly Lion is his for the asking as well.

The Collapse of Howard Dean’s Cyber-Bubble

The saga of Howard Dean is a cautionary tale about politics and the Internet. His campaign rode a big wave of cyberspace hype -- and then sank.

There are valid complaints to be made about Dean’s rough handling by major news outlets this winter. Sometimes the coverage was unfair. But what gained him media prominence in the first place was journalistic infatuation with his campaign’s successful use of the Internet for outreach and fund-raising.

Actually, Dean burst onto the nation’s front pages because of money. As far as political journalists were concerned, Dean came into his own as a presidential contender midway through 2003. In the second quarter of the year, he raised $7.5 million -- including $800,000 on a single dramatic day.

In sync with the aphorism that money is the mother’s milk of politics, the former Vermont governor seemed to have found a cash cow on the Internet. The ability to raise large sums from many online devotees caused the political press corps to sit up and take notice.

Countless news stories during the summer and fall chronicled the

The Wrong Side of History

We were all lied to. We're used to it. If Westmoreland's body counts and Watergate and Iran Contra and the Savings and Loan and the first Gulf War didn't teach some of us, then I guess some of us were never meant to learn. The fact is that some of us bought it, and some of us didn't. It's a big, glaring, important distinction, one that, without indulging hyperbole, divides the whole of history and places us on one side or the other.

Thank You!

Mr Wasserman, you have no idea how very much my family, friends and I appreciate your February 16th article: "Bush wins Triple Trifecta as the worst president ever". With misinformation [and disinformation] running rampant in the media today, reporters like you are a breath of fresh air! Please know how invaluable you are to so many that hunger for the truth!

Sincerely,
Moriah Mattingly Jones
Cumberland, Maryland

Thanks Harvey

Many thanks to Harvey for the "Bush wins Triple Trifecta as worst president ever" article.

"Bush's "No Tree Left Standing" attack on Mother Earth..." in every sense of the words that make up that statement, is the literal truth. We live in Northern New Mexico. Behind our house and all around this part of the State there used to be many stands of beautiful Pinion Pines. Now all that is left is mostly dead Pinion Pines, the result of an ongoing multi-year long attack and onslaught brought on by millions of Pine Bark Beetle's, and these beetle's continue to multiply and spread at an 'unchecked' and 'unchallenged' rate that is no less than catastrophic. These beetle's are literal terrorists and a deadly menacing threat to all species of Pine, including valuable stands of Pine used for timber that is logged.

So, what is the Bush Administration doing about these terrorists? Letting them go unchallenged.

Heads Up: You Must Act Now to Stop an Appalling CAFTA, FTAA Sneak Attack on State Purchasing Policy!

A leaked letter from the Bush Administration to state governors reveals a sneaky attempt now underway to get governors to 'voluntarily' commit their states to comply with draconian constraints on domestic procurement (purchasing) policy included in the recently completed CAFTA and proposed for FTAA. Unbelievably, the leaked documents show that the U.S. Trade Representative's Office is seeking blanket permission from governors to sign states on to the procurement provisions of ALL trade agreements under negotiation - including the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the South African Customs Union and a raft of bilateral deals with Australia, Morocco, Columbia, Thailand and more nations.

Puerto Rico/Please write to our Vieques Political Prisoners

It is very important that people write to the Vieques Political Prisoners:

Ernesto de Jesus Giushard
#21716-069

Heriberto Hernandez Carmona
#22304-069

Jose Perez Gonzalez
#21519-069

Jose Acosta Velez
#23883-069

MDC Guaynabo
P.O. Box 2147
SJ,
PR 00922-2147

On not believing in John Kerry

Rolling toward the Democratic nomination, the Kerry campaign has the enduring benefit of the vast fortune of Mrs. Kerry, the former Teresa Heinz, lovely relict of the Portuguese empire. Mrs. Kerry can use her money to run issue ads. Her interest in environmental issues has been mostly expressed through her Heinz Foundation, whose board until very recently was adorned by that hero of free-market enviros, Ken Lay of Enron.

            The Heinz Foundation put Ken Lay in charge of their global-warming initiative. When Enron went belly up, the Foundation stuck by their man: "Whatever troubles he had at Enron, Ken Lay had a good reputation in the environmental community for being a business man who was environmentally sensitive. When someone does wrong in one part of their life, it doesn't mean they can't do good in another part of their life."

            It's the kind of sublime indifference to the messy realities of politics and life that is now inspiring Democrats to rally behind Kerry, under the vacant banner, Anybody But Bush.

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