Formal Condemnation and Repudiation of Bush, Cheney, and Their Policies Should Be the Stated Position of the U.S.A. after 2008.
DIGBY SAYETH: 
I doubt that anyone
overseas has been... impressed with the(Bush administration's) commitment to democracy... since they launched it directly after stealing an election at home and telling everyone who raised the slightest protest to go cheney themselves. There may be people in the world less credible on the issue of democracy, but I can't think of any who have made such a fetish of insisting that other countries do as they say but not as they do.
Furthermore, the Bush administration has such a reputation for lying and incompetence, the smart bet is to do exactly the opposite of what they prescribe in any situation. You can't go wrong assuming that if they want something it's for self-serving reasons and that if they get what they want, they will screw it up so badly that even if it were well-intentioned it would come out badly anyway.
This is going to be a big problem for the US for a long time to come. People may recognize that Bush and Cheney are somewhat unique cases, but they also know that the bipartisan political establishment pretty much backed everything he did. It makes it very hard to argue that anyone else will be substantially different...
It is imperative that whoever wins the presidency... makes it their first priority to distance themselves from the Bush administration's policies... Regardless of the merits of Cheney's strategic wet dreams, which in my view are nearly non-existent, the perception of them overseas are toxic and are distorting the world's politics. And that is making everything much more unpredictable and dangerous --- exactly what we do not need.
No matter what a new administration does, the single most important rhetorical tool they must employ is Bush bashing. And I mean that seriously. Our credibility around the world is moribund until the US government repudiates George W. Cheney. -END-DIGBY-WISE MAN...
Combine Digby's conclusions right-there... w/ my title at the top, and that's what I've been tryin' to say for-awhile... The world needs to know that Bush/Cheney wa a CANCER on America, not the norm, nor the "new"!
And we're gonna get well/better...
Again... Period! Signed, Herb.
I doubt that anyoneoverseas has been... impressed with the(Bush administration's) commitment to democracy... since they launched it directly after stealing an election at home and telling everyone who raised the slightest protest to go cheney themselves. There may be people in the world less credible on the issue of democracy, but I can't think of any who have made such a fetish of insisting that other countries do as they say but not as they do.
Furthermore, the Bush administration has such a reputation for lying and incompetence, the smart bet is to do exactly the opposite of what they prescribe in any situation. You can't go wrong assuming that if they want something it's for self-serving reasons and that if they get what they want, they will screw it up so badly that even if it were well-intentioned it would come out badly anyway.
This is going to be a big problem for the US for a long time to come. People may recognize that Bush and Cheney are somewhat unique cases, but they also know that the bipartisan political establishment pretty much backed everything he did. It makes it very hard to argue that anyone else will be substantially different...
It is imperative that whoever wins the presidency... makes it their first priority to distance themselves from the Bush administration's policies... Regardless of the merits of Cheney's strategic wet dreams, which in my view are nearly non-existent, the perception of them overseas are toxic and are distorting the world's politics. And that is making everything much more unpredictable and dangerous --- exactly what we do not need.
No matter what a new administration does, the single most important rhetorical tool they must employ is Bush bashing. And I mean that seriously. Our credibility around the world is moribund until the US government repudiates George W. Cheney. -END-DIGBY-WISE MAN...
Combine Digby's conclusions right-there... w/ my title at the top, and that's what I've been tryin' to say for-awhile... The world needs to know that Bush/Cheney wa a CANCER on America, not the norm, nor the "new"!And we're gonna get well/better...
Again... Period! Signed, Herb.
posted by Herb at 3:36 PM
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