Who is Keeping George out of Touch?

by James Glaser
August 17, 2004

This week on Larry King Live George Bush was asked about why the country is so divided under his Presidency. George said he hadn't noticed that and where ever he went, the crowds are all waving and smiling.

Meanwhile in the real world, I see more and more bumper stickers which say, "BUCK FUSH."

In George Bush's world, those who haven't paid a lot of money to see him must sign a Loyalty Oath to even get near his motorcade. Protesters are kept out of sight and George has heavy tinted windows if he is riding around. Otherwise it is a quick stop at some prearranged location, where only party faithful have a chance to be seen.

George is living in a Fairy Tale world where everything is just hunky dory.

Hate, I see and hear about it every day. In the Medical Field, Bush's name is mud. Just how many people do you think are affected by their jobs going over seas? How many of those same people watch in disbelief as Labor Department Officials told the nation that those jobs going seas were a good thing. How many people were aghast that Bush would claim a person flipping hamburgers was in a manufacturing job to make the numbers look good.

How many millions have been hurt by Bush's spending on war and his cuts in Education, the Environment, Veterans Health Care, and preschool school classes?

How many people get mad every time they fill up their gas tank? American workers are not better off than they were four years ago and they know it.

Yes, I do know people who think Bush can walk on water, but even they know about the division in our country and they wonder what George sees.

Just like they did in Nazi Germany, George Bush will continue to say things are looking up, "we have turned the corner." George will continue to deny that we have problems or just maybe somebody is keeping him so controlled that he can't see it.

Could our President be on drugs? Could everyone in the White House be smiling and only telling him positive things? Could George Bush be so delusional that he can't see what he has done to our country? I think, yes, yes, and yes again,


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