Media group think made Bush appear to be a leader for a while

The Smirking Chimp: "Rove can spin and spin as much as he wants, he can never make the Shrub into a great leader.

I saw George II after 9/11 and I'm truly sorry but I bought into the whole 'Strong Leadership for uncertain times.' It was pumped out by the media 24/7. I felt sorry for America's loss and looked for a leader to rise above the terrible tragedy and deal with the threat of terrorism. At first, I thought that George II was rising to the occasion. Later, I realised that was what the Media Groupthink wanted me to think.

See, I thought things were going ok. Then the Patriot Act was rammed through congress. I thought, why is an act that allows for the searching of library records refered to as patriotic. I did wonder how 2 000 men who liked to hang out in caves were somehow a greater threat to American National Security than the Nazis and the Soviets combined. However, he was the leader and I'm sorry, I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

Afghanistan started out ok and all the media outlets were harping on it and America was fighting back. But for all the major terrorists we supposedly caught, for all the triumphs reported, Osama Bin-Laden eluded us, as did most of the Taliban. There weren't that many troops in the area either to search for them. I was a little unsettled. Then they mysterously stopped talking about Bin-Laden except in relation to Saddam.

I was really worried. Saddam had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. Yet he was being portrayed as somehow in cahoots with Bin-Laden in an imminent plan to nuke the US using drone aircraft. The Media Groupthink was pumping it out 24/7 on American TV. When the UN inspectors kept coming back and saying 'there's no weapons here' Bush was on the TV screaming about how Saddam was deceiving Hans Blix. Then the Dixie Chicks spoke out against this war, and the GOP gleefully boycotted the 'traitors.'

I guess my last shred of respect for Bush was the Aircraft carrier 'Mission Accomplished' stunt. It was so shamefull in exploiting serving men and women for shrub's re-election campaign. I can't imagine FDR landing on the USS Lexington in Tokyo Bay movie camaras rolling. I certainly can't imagine him landing after the Battle of Midway and declare victory even though there was much hard fighting ahead.

You see, I have come to the conclusion that George II is probably the worst leader of the United States of America since it's inception. There have been many indifferent presidents, incomptent ones, and corrupt ones. George on his best day falls short of all of them on their worst days.

No President since probably FDR in World War II has been given such a wonderful opportunity. It was a tragic day that united Americans together and united the world behind America. France's Le Monde ran a headline 'Today we are all Americans' and my heart strongly agreed. Moderate Muslim's condemmed the actions of a madman. Shrub pissed this all away.

Never has America's motivations been so questioned. Never has America's hands been so bloodied by the torture at Abu Graib. Never has the Muslim world looked so dimly on America. Never has America's long standing allies felt such disdain for the most powerful man on the planet. (I wouldn't trust dumbya near my dvd player let alone the button).

It doesn't take a historian or a political scientist to realize that the 'I'm a Uniter not a Divider' has managed in under 3 years to take the monumental spirit of unity in the aftermath of September 11th and divide America in two, and piss of pretty much the rest of the world. If there was a championship for idiots, 2001-2004 would be the final competition and Bush would have won it easily."