Richard Clarke is everyone’s new hero, except perhaps, the Bush administration’s. The former ultimate DC insider, serving under four presidents, is now under intense scrutiny and character assassination from the White House because he implied that September 11 could have been prevented and said that Bush actively ignored the warnings about the attacks, and that directly following the incomprehensible tragedy of that fateful day, our President waged war on Iraq instead of trying to deal with al-Qaeda; essentially a trick that everyone and no one fell for. Since they cannot really prove him wrong, they will just complain about his personality. There were so many lies being told by the media in conjunction with the government that no one could remember them all. That is the problem with dishonesty – you need to have a terrific memory, which no one in the current administration seems to have.
Condoleeza Rice went on “60 Minutes” to try to salvage the re-election of Bush, but there is no truck monstrous enough to pull themselves out of this mess. I mean really, the plain truth is that unless the people of this nation have gone completely insane, or unless the elections are all rigged up already there is no way that this stupid, inane, ridiculous man will be re-elected. George W. Bush will take his rightful place in the idiot gallery, inducted into the Despot Hall of Fame right next to Idi Amin and Pol Pot.
If Bush is actually put back into power for another four years, this country will burn like the ceiling at the last Great White show that wasn’t a benefit for the victims, and he is probably already preparing by taking up the violin. We needed a hero, and got fucked by Nero. I am not making a joke about that horrendous event in Rhode Island – it just seems fitting, for as out of control the fire was that tragic night in Providence, our elected (?) officials are just as uncontainable in their destruction and mayhem, completely shutting us in with lies and distractions from the media, like padding the walls with ultra flammable black spray painted foam rubber before shooting us up with pyrotechnics. I can only hope that as a nation, we remain once bitten, twice shy.
In a way, I feel for Ms. Rice. I was always trying to like her. She got that jacked name, and she is a bad ass in so many ways, but why does she have to use her powers for evil? Why can’t she be on our team? Is it possible that she really intends to defend the ridiculously tragic misadventures of our embarrassing Commander in Chief? There are not enough smoke and mirrors anywhere to distract us all from the appalling fact that the government has failed its people so grievously, so selfishly, so stupidly. Not even David Blaine can make that shit disappear.
Thankfully, there are the people in government who actually seek to do their job, to protect the nation, to preserve the Constitution, who have the brass balls to speak the truth, walk out of those ivory towers, and into the media blitz without fear or a need to spin right round baby right round like a record baby. The Richard Clarkes and Paul O’Neills are the only ones we can count on right now, and they are tearing the playhouse down. Our nation is not a toy, our armed forces are not little plastic action figures that are poseable, or more importantly, disposable. We are people. We are the people from “WE THE PEOPLE.” Yeah, that is us. Remember us?