"Worst Ever" President... Nobel Prize winner's thoughts on Bush

[masmdu]

US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Gov't as "Worst" in
American History


"This is not normal government policy. Now is the time for (American) people to
engage in civil disobedience. I think it's time to protest - as much as possible," the
61-year-old scholar added.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0729-06.htm

[CWebster]

1. Too bad you won't see this ont he front page of your local paper:

"I think this is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years of history. It has engaged in extradordinarily irresponsible policies not only in foreign policy and economics but also in social and environmental policy".

[RichM]

2. Excellent stuff. Thanks for posting!

[quilp]

3. It is about time the intellectual elite started to speak out.

They have allowed Yahoos like Limbaugh and Hannity to spew their nonsense for far too long. They were silent while a reactionary and ethically bankrupt Supreme Court installed a president against the expressed vote of the public. They said little while our Constitution was being shredded by that religious idiot in the Justice Department. They sat on their hands while the fraudulant occupant of the White House lied us into a war. They have said absolutely nothing while the most socially destructive budget in history was passed by a spineless Congress.

The intellectual elite kept quiet in Germany in the Thirties in the hope it would all blow away in time. It didn't.

[Dimsdale]

7. Limbaugh would spin this..

as coming from a Berkeley Irovy Tower Liberal. Just full of lies and inaccuracies.. He treated Mandela in the same way (lies and inaccuracies) after Mandela had trashed Bush over the then-planned invasion of Iraq. The other loud-mouthed sons o'bitches will be on it as well.

[linazelle]

9. Limbaugh's ahead of the game...he's shooting down academics who

point out Bushco's issues already. I listen to him briefly several times a week and today he was spouting off about the recent study that identified the common traits of conservatives and which concluded that these traits were also evident in Hitler and Stalin's era. He summed all the data from the Berkely study up in one word: "Elitists."

Look for it to be applied to other academic info from the left.

What I found to be hypocritical about the statement is that he's now calling left academics elitists when last year I almost had a seizure when I heard him say that dems are basically "poor". I guess that makes us poor elitists now.

[heidiho]

4. He and Helen Thomas have said it out loud

now will others follow suit in saying what all of us have known all along - the worst person to ever occupy the White House - albeit illegally!

[Toots]

5. This is really a heavy interview ~ check out this exchange

SPIEGEL ONLINE: So the government's just bad at doing the correct math?

Akerlof: There is a systematic reason. The government is not really telling the truth to the American people. Past administrations from the time of Alexander Hamilton have on the average run responsible budgetary policies. What we have here is a form of looting.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: If so, why's the President still popular?

Akerlof: For some reason the American people does not yet recognize the dire consequences of our government budgets. It's my hope that voters are going to see how irresponsible this policy is and are going to respond in 2004 and we're going to see a reversal.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What if that doesn't happen?

Akerlof: Future generations and even people in ten years are going to face massive public deficits and huge government debt. Then we have a choice. We can be like a very poor country with problems of threatening bankruptcy. Or we're going to have to cut back seriously on Medicare and Social Security. So the money that is going overwhelmingly to the wealthy is going to be paid by cutting services for the elderly. And people depend on those. It's only among the richest 40 percent that you begin to get households who have sizeable fractions of their own retirement income.

[quilp]

6. "Looting" is the right word!

Bush isn't running this country. He is using it!

[DemoTex]

8. Akerlof sez:

"This is not normal government policy. Now is the time for (American) people to engage in civil disobedience. I think it's time to protest - as much as possible," the 61-year-old scholar added.

Now, Professor Akerlof, how do you propose we get hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans to protest? I agree, it needs to be done. But how, pray tell? Remember what we are up against: 70% of those people think Sadam Hussein and Iraq were responsible for 9/11. They believe what Bu$hco wants them to believe.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

11. Isn't that the truth!!

70% will believe anything he tells them. I've never seen anything like it.

[leftyandproud]

10. well..

Laura Ingraham has a nobel price too, for biology or something...We gonna take her seriously?

HELL NO

[mitchum]

12. Laura Ingraham has no Nobel Prize...

where in the hell did you get that?