Because the Coastal Post was asked nicely to write something positive about George Bush (see May letters to editor), and because we believe the impossible is usually merely very difficult, we have considered the contributions of our man in the White House.
First, the fiasco in Florida that resulted in his 5-4 appointment to the position by the Supreme Court, provided a civics lesson for the American public. The process familiarized millions of voters with America's electoral college, educating them about our built in constitutional protections against the hazards of democracy.
And for every average student out there, Bush has proven that they too can aspire to be president. Of course it helps if your great grandfather made a fortune in the opium smuggling trade into China, if your grandfather stole Geronimo's skull out of his grave, helped fund Hitler and still became senator and if your father was head of the CIA and president.
It is also very helpful to belong to a secretive, occult organization of Yale University, The Skull and Bones Club. The S & B goes to great lengths to help the dozen members selected from each Yale senior class accumulate wealth and power after they graduate. They are so successful at this that both John Kerry and George Bush are members of the club. Kind of makes one wonder how much of a difference there actually is between the candidates.
Bush has done a lot for criminal rehabilitation as president. He's appointed more convicted felons to his administration than any other president. Someone has to give them a second chance. Bush knows all about second chances. He's been convicted of a few crimes himself, and gotten only a slap on the wrist for others because of his family connections.
Bush has shown that even a person who goofed off in college, partied wildly in his "irresponsible youth", shirked military duties while doing same, ran several businesses into the ground and profited from insider trading on these same failures can still become president. If that isn't evidence for true equality in the American political system, then what is?
His adventure in Iraq has totally discredited the whole "pre-emptive military action" concept. That's a good thing, because plans were in the works to bring it on to Iran, Syria, Libya, even Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Now those dreams of empire by the neo-conservatives who rode Bush's horse into office have been derailed by "improvised explosive devices".
Bush has pretty much laid to rest the conspiracists' fears of UN black helicopters being used to impose martial law in the US. Not because Bush declared the UN "irrelevant" before his War on Iraq, because since then he's had to go back hat in hand to ask for help with the occupation. But it 's hard to imagine a group that can't even keep the peace in Kosovo, somehow doing this in Iraq, much less in the states where there are more guns than people.
There must be more positive accomplishments of Bush than the CP has come up with here. His many environmental improvements are escaping us for the moment, but surely we'll be made aware of these as he spends over $200 million on campaign ads in the coming months. Maybe we will write another pro-Bush article then. Especially since we've been assured that the Coastal Post will become even more well known by doing so. We might even become as well known as Fox News.
