Someone wise once said...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

"True love is watching someone die of cancer." It's a sentiment I've lived through. More than once. And anyone else who has done the same knows the look of person who has seen the most important person in their universe endure a brush with death. That's why this video hit home for me. In it, former President George H.W. Bush comments on his wife Barbara's recovery after a "routine" heart operation.

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Now whether or not you consider heart valve replacement surgery routine for a women of 83 years of age is one thing, but what can not be disputed is the joy and relief expressed by the former president. How many other Americans will have this privilege? How many of us now know that when the time comes, our own loved ones will be similarly cared for? These are particularly relevant questions when douche nozzles like Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) has the gall to state that "Health care is a privilege...It's not necessarily a right."

Fuck you. Seriously.

Fix health care now for the rest of us.

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Damage control in the homeland
Monday, March 22, 2004

Richard A. Clarke, former counterterrorism coordinator to Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush has hit the administration where it hurts. He claims the White House - prior to September 11, 2001 - couldn't be bothered with talk of terrorism. Furthermore, Clarke comments on the administration's obsession with Iraq, not Osama since day one of the administration despite overwhelming intelligence that something big was about to go down.

Before, during, and after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers, the White House was hell bent on going to war with Saddam Hussein. So much so that Clarke was pressured to concoct a link between al Qaeda and Iraq. When he refused to do so, he was shuffled off to head a new cyber-terrorism initiative.

As expected the administration has come out with guns blazing. Fortunately for Clarke, he isn't married to a covert CIA agent whose life can be threatened by exposing her identity to the world with a few well placed phone calls. Nevertheless, it's character assassination a-go-go inside the beltway today as the White House fights to keep this story out of American diner conversation. Ain't election years a bitch, George?

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