FUNNY, INTERESTING
(A FRIEND SENT THIS)
Don't know who wrote this - but it's GREAT !!! Maybe it's time for Bush to do just this - let's face it, he's pretty much finished as an effective President thanks to a 3% approval rated Congress that is doing everything it can to make life miserable - and a media that won't let up. Let me repeat that ... a 3% Congress !!
BUT, if he were to do this, he could go out 'in a blaze of glory', so to speak - and Americans would understand simply because we ALL LOVE a fighter - regardless of political affiliation. Look at Truman, he went out with lower poll ratings than Bush, but is respected to this day as one who "Walked the Talk".
Personally - I'd LOVE it if Bush did just this - but then, as in the closing statement ... we'd have Pelosi, and that scares me even more ...
Regardless, it's a GREAT read - the author makes some extremely poignant observations, so even if you hate Bush, it's absolutely worth reading the entire "speech".
The speech George W. Bush COULD give: Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer. To all that are listening, you know "who you are", and to others, you also know "who you are not". I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit.
Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office, contrary what the liberal blogs and biased media wish. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out. Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in, nor is it every reported by the media. Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security. We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this blood for "oil" thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell.
And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Duh!!
Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ' Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you? Of course not, it's not in the 'fair' media's interest to report that FACT!! You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them. That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are.
They want to kill you and your loved ones. Most ironic, yet somewhat satisfying, is knowing that the Hollywood "types", who are the first to condemn our actions against these rabid fanatics, would be the first to be executed simply because of their 'licentious and adultrous behavior' which goes directly against the beliefs of these 'Jihadists' and their corrupted beliefs. And know this, the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor'. Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops, or 44-minutes of uninterrupted Law & Order to see the crime solved. Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing. In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol or Who Wants to be a Superhero. I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a Category 5 hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet or hard work, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads So I quit.
I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (unlike Al Gore's who's yearly electric bill is over $30,000.00 !!!) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. It is my sincerest wish that I die before the last pillars of America fall - so I don't have to watch as this great country fails. Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Nancy Pelosi is your new President, with Harry Reid and his ilk right by her side.
You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008. So that's it. God bless what's left of America . Some of you know who you are and what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off.
GW Bush
