I think most politicians start out wanting to make the world a better place, but they soon learn that the public really doesn't want to hear the truth---it wants someone who'll blow sunshine up its collective ass. So they give people 'pie in the sky' and tell them what they want to hear, because that's the only way to achieve power in Washington and get along with everyone else. And doing so requires lying, glad-handing, schmoozing, and otherwise playing fast and loose with the principles that they ran on in the first place.

Bush is one of the few who I personally believe ran for public office out of pure self-interest: partly because his family groomed him for it, and mostly because he had some scores to settle (Saddam) and an agenda (overturning abortion rights, installing evangelical Christianity as the state religion, and making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else). This is why I despise him, his administration, and everything they stand for.........I believe Bush is both a megalomaniac and an incredibly egotesticle (no, that is NOT a misspelling) man who is leading this nation over the edge of a cliff for his own selfish reasons. I do not think for one minute that his intentions are honorable, or that his policies are for the benefit of anyone but himself and others like him. I can only hope that his term will run out before he can do any more damage to our country's long-term economic, moral, and intellectual health, and its prospects for survival in a post-9/11 world.

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