Since well before the stolen election of 00, I have asked repeatedly why people ( the press in particular) refused to take a close look at GWB. Like others, I didn't know a lot about him, other than he was GHWB's first failure at parenthood.
Sure, I was pretty much aware that,but for nepotism this guy would be just another loser. But what struck me most about him and his promotion as some sort of moral christian was laughable.
As a strong advocate against the death penalty, I had watched with amazement at the speed and wreckless way he was executing people in Texas...
I've long asked/argued that " there must have been SOMEONE that deserved mercy, and a person calling themselves a christian would surely find compassion for at least ONE condemed person.
But , no, not until nearly 7 years after the fact do questions arise in the MSM about these issues.
This editorial from the Boston Globe is withering in it's critique of Bush and his mind set.
http://www.boston.com/...
check this:
And why should they not have? Let's remember who this man is. As governor of Texas, he presided over the executions of 152 people, including the first woman put to death in Texas in a century. Her name was Karla Faye Tucker. Bush's response to the world-wide plea raised in her behalf was an astounding display of cruelty, a mocking imitation of the woman begging not to be killed.
Bush rejected appeals for clemency in every death penalty case that came before him. The Texas death chamber, with its lethal injection gurney, is a place of decorum. And savagery. That executions defined the main public distinction that Bush brought to the US presidency sums up the national disgrace, while suggesting also how little surprise there should be that America is presided over now by an executioner-in-chief.
where have these people been the last 7 years ?????
George W. Bush is the impresario of unnecessary violence. America has followed him into the death chamber of this war, and now he wants us to believe that the way out is through more death
This from a major news outlet ?
With his lies at the beginning of this war, and his fantasy now that an honorable outcome remains possible, the president is a taunting killer, caught in the act. He lacks nothing but the black hood. Stop this man.
Stop this man......