A Depressing F*@king Day

Part of me wants to give Bush's administration some benefit of my vast doubt about its motives or aims. Paul Wolfowitz being chosen to head the World Bank is in some ways but one more in a long list of oxymoronic choices (Michael Moore has detailed in one of his books how Bush's cabinet members all sit in positions for which there is a direct conflict of interest). The World Bank already takes at least a questionable role in exploiting "third-world" nations and entrenching them in debt. Wolfowitz, though, is the very exemplar of a neo-con--can any good come of this? Does anyone for a minute believe he has the poor's best interests at heart? It's a mockery, really.
I was a bit late in doing so, but I signed my protest to the prospect of drilling for oil in Alaska through JohnKerry.com. By the way, how many unsuccessful presidential candidates go on to be a strong voice for positive change? My vote in November is just confirmed for me with every one of the mailings that calls for support in such things as health care for children. Anyway, apparently nothing is sacred, and screw any untainted natural habitat. On with the drilling! We will kill for oil in Iraq, and we will destroy for oil in Alaska. I don't know what translation the religious Right is reading, but my Bible talks about being a good steward of what is given us. It's the first thing with which Adam is charged. That's a popular sermon topic these days--being a good steward--but it's usually applied to finances. At my most cynical, I would say that's about "make sure you tithe well," but what might even be more insidious is that it's about indoctrinating fiscal conservatism, or just plain old conservatism. The glaring inconsistency is that these conservatives have put us into economic debt for future generations and will never be as truly fiscally conservative as Jimmy Carter was, who went as far as serving cafeteria-style food for his administration and asking citizens to turn down their heaters at night. Again I say that this Bush administration was voted in on "moral values" only to fervently pursue their economic agenda, which I dare say is anti-Christ.

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