Children in charge...? I don't think so...

I don't usually say such things, but there's something unbelievably stunted about all this. [President Bush] and his top officials seem almost completely divorced from any sense of the actual consequences of their various acts and decisions. They live in some kind of dream world offshore of reality, which would perhaps not be so disturbing if they didn't also control the levers of power in what, not so long ago, was regularly referred to as the "lone" or "last superpower" or the globe's only "hyperpower."

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It may be that nations deserve the leaders they get and perhaps it's no mistake that George Bush ended up as our leader -- twice no less -- in a period that otherwise seemed to cry out for having your basic set of grown-ups in power, or that his Secretary of Defense likes to play stand-up comic at his news conferences, or that his first Attorney General just loved to sing songs of his own creation to his staff, or that none of them can get it through their heads that it's not just the terrorists who, in our world, have been taking "the lives of the innocent."

I keep thinking: Who let these children out in the world on their own?

many, many times i've seen bush and his administration compared to children... let me respectfully disagree... i believe they are fully aware, mature individuals who know PRECISELY what they are doing... and what IS IT that they ARE doing, you might ask...? i don't think it's that hard to understand... they are using every opportunity to sow fear, fully cognizant that fear-filled citizens are much easier to control... has it worked so far...? i think the answer to that is self-evident...

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