Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African Anglican leader who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his principled fight for justice in his native country. "It's unbelievable," he told me in an interview, "that a country that many of us have looked to as the bastion of true freedom could now have eroded so many of the liberties we believed were upheld almost religiously."
Tutu recalled teaching in Jacksonville, Fla., when Bush won re-election in 2004. "I was shocked," he said, "because I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the déjà vu was frightening.
There are moments, I tell you most seriously, when I could almost cry. They pass, and I never do (not about this)...but there are moments. Look what you've done, those of you who ever...ever thought George W. Bush could be a leader.
Feelin' good now, are ya? Feelin' great that you avoided voting for the wimpy nerds in 2000 and 2004? That's nice.
The business magazine Barron's has published an editorial. Barron's is known among "civilians," well-known in the business community, their word carries some weight, and they're not thought to be particuarly liberal.
Politics is politics, and power is power, and money is money...but there are still, apparently, some people in the business community who are made queasy by the thought of their president willfully disregarding the law. Let me put that another way: Big business may be turning against Bush.
And they want Congress to either change the law so he wasn't-or they want him impeached. Given Bush's ratings in the high 30s, and Congresses even lower, what do you think they're going to do?
And again, if there are any conservatives looking in, no, I'm not enjoying this. Not enjoying this at all. It's a farce of the darkest comedy that two of our presidents in a row should face impeachment.
But frankly, those of us who voted for Kerry (and opposed your ridiculous impeachment of Clinton on a nonsense issue) tried very hard to spare the country this. Pleasant dreams tonight to the rest of you, who voted for a criminal, and put personal dislike above the good of the country or even competence.
Sleep tight.
Via MyDD
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