Bush, in Check very good read!

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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050820T200000-0500_86543_OBS_BUSH__IN_CHECK_.asp

Bush, in Check
Common Sense
John Maxwell
Sunday, August 21, 2005

In chess, the King is the most important piece but, at the same time, the weakest. All other pieces can move more than one square at a time; even the lowly pawns at their first move can move two squares. And even a pawn can place a King in Check.


John Maxwell
The king is the centre of power and he must be protected at all cost. He cannot be captured, but if he is ever threatened with imminent capture - if he is in 'check' - his handler must either get him out immediately or be 'mated'. The game is over.

Watching the antics of Mr Bush's supporters over the past few days makes it plain that the president's handlers think he is in check, and, short of nuking Mrs Cindy Sheehan, they don't seem to have any good idea how to prevent checkmate and presidential meltdown.

This week, Cindy Sheehan went back to California to arrange care for her mother who has had a stroke. No one has blamed her mother's stroke on the Republicans, but it must have been difficult for any mother to endure the traducing and sliming of her daughter that Mrs Sheehan's mother has had to bear.

The basic Republican reflex under attack is the Hagfish defence - to generate so much slime that your opponent needs to spend an inordinate amount of time, effort and money to clean himself up. Cindy Sheehan, unlike Senator Kerry, Governor Dean and President Clinton has ignored the hagfish and avoided entangling herself in the slime.

Her critics accuse her of betraying America, dishonouring her son, dishonouring the soldiers in Iraq, everything except cannibalism but that, as in the case of Haiti's President Aristide, is no doubt on the cards.

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1. No one

No one has blamed her mother's stroke on the Republicans, but it must have been difficult for any mother to endure the traducing and sliming of her daughter that Mrs Sheehan's mother has had to bear.



Check :applause:

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2. He hits the nail on the head.

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3. rethugs use the hagfish offense, too

Eating the opponent alive from the inside out (c.f. DLC).

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4. The European artists should

read this...

"Even now, there is afoot a public relations campaign to make a heroine and martyr out of one of the most dangerous propagandists for the war - a New York Times newsroom employee named Judith Miller.

Long after everyone else either knew or suspected that the authorised version of the casus belli was a gross fabrication fashioned to deceive, mislead and entrap millions of people into endorsing an unnecessary war, Judith Miller was pumping out stories about WMD, justifying the spilling of innocent blood and the degradation, starvation and torture, rape and murder of people who simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The war converted large areas of the Middle East into hotbeds of terrorism, damaged and abrogated the civil rights of millions, particularly Iraqi women and has generally made the world a much less safe place than it was before the war began. Yet Mrs Miller goes to jail to still defend its authors."

For all this, the American press/media is largely to blame and head and shoulders among those miscreants is Judith Miller. She has gone to jail because she insists that she has a right to protect a 'confidential' informant whose malicious purpose was to discredit a loyal, truthful US citizen, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, by endangering the life and ending the career of his wife, an undercover CIA agent.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1725795

"Europeans join campaign to free jailed US journalist (Judith Miller)"

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5. Generally people from the Caribbean region

know more about American politics than Americans.

It is not unusual to hear a very loud debate in a market or public place and if you listen they could be debating American or regional political figures with equal in depth knowledge.

The upper classes from many of the islands with ties to the UK often send their children to Britain to be educated -- and John Maxwell writes like he was educated in Britain.

It is doubtful that the average American would be as knowledgeable about American current events as this write has demonstrated.

Thanks for posting this -- I'm looking forward to escaping to the Caribbean where the people often seem saner than many of the poor uninformed people I meet in the States.

I was in the Caribbean during the coup attempt in Venezuela -- and damned the people knew immediately that bushie was involved. And people were pissed --very pissed at bushie. There is no respect for bushie and for most Americans -- you almost need to wear a "I didn't vote for Bush" t-shirt.