http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/washington/20bush.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Once again the president's idealistic rhetoric makes him again appear as a fool. On a national holiday, Thanksgiving, the unfavorable 'leader of the free world' spoke at a historical site about the ideals that Americans live up to.
The president, in his speech, was thankful for:
“farmers and ranchers who provide us with abundant food,” “entrepreneurs who create new jobs” and “devoted teachers who prepare our children for the opportunities of tomorrow.”
Ironically -- as our heavily subsidized corn industry makes our crop essentially worthless, so that farmer's lose money by selling their corn rather than storing it in giant storehouses, and as our economy with failing credit begins to turn towards recession, and as the 'no child left behind' turns its head away from schools in desperate need of help.
Mr. President's 'call to action' was directed at the public, when it is he who truly needs to act on the complacency that America has taken in so many vital foreign policies: global climate change, the crisis in Darfur, monks being prisoned in Burma. So who is it that needs to act?
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