"We're creating... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property." - President George W. Bush, October 2004.
I know it's been a busy couple days, what with the wheels coming off Georgina, the Malfunctioning VP Fembot, and with McCain staging the single most spectacular and least productive campaign hissyfit in all of American history (Quick! Someone smart! Fact check that for me!) but can we all PLEASE take a moment to remind ourselves that George Bush ran for reelection under the slogan "The Ownership Society?" and that whatever the substance of his address Wednesday night, his inability to express even a smidgen of responsibility for the mess we're now in deserves loud and widespread condemnation?
I know discussing what an EPIC FAIL his presidency has been is pretty tedious, but I think conservative repubbies NEED to be reminded (and reminded, and reminded) that at his second inaugural address pretty much the only message re: domestic policy Bush gave to the American people was "Buy, Buy Baby!"
"In America's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence...And now we will extend this vision by reforming great institutions to serve the needs of our time. To give every American a stake in the promise and future of our country, we will...build an ownership society. We will widen the ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance - preparing our people for the challenges of life in a free society."The next time Ann Coulter or Michelle "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann try to fob off responsibility for our current crisis on black homeowners (!!!) please please remind them and everyone else that THE PRESIDENT TOLD US TO. Don't allow them to perpetrate the SICK JOKE of holding struggling citizen borrowers to higher standards of fiscal responsibility than billionaire lenders...or the sitting President of the United States!
KOMMENTEN!