-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Recipient list suppressed> Subject: Prepare for disappointment Date: Friday, December 15, 2000 5:18 PM ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Prepare for disappointment by Joseph Farah My, my, my. I knew my column announcing there would be no honeymoon for George W. Bush would be unpopular, but I had no idea just how angry his supporters would be. Kendall L. David of Rock Island, Ill., didn't mince any words. "Well, Mr. Farah, I just decided not to read your website any longer," he wrote. "I just read your commentary on Dubya's speech, and I am very disappointed in you. We have had eight years of criminal behavior in the White House, and your first commentary is to slam our 'Great Hope' for a better administration. Thanks for nothing. Your site will not be visited by me in the future." First, let me make one thing clear: There is no doubt in my mind that George W. Bush's administration will be better in many ways than the reign of terror conducted by Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the last eight years. No one understands better than I just how bad the Clinton regime has been. I've covered it for eight long years. I have been personally victimized by its vindictive, criminal behavior. But surpassing the Clinton years is, from my point of view, a very low standard by which to measure the incoming administration. Mike C. Sheldon wrote, "Where the heck were you eight years ago? If the press gave Clinton a 'pass' on criticism for eight years, were you one of them?" Where was I? I was doing my job, exposing Clinton from Day 1. My thanks was an Internal Revenue Service audit that nearly bankrupted my organization. My offices were broken into, my phone was tapped, my reporters and editors were exposed to all manner of harassment and intimidation. Where was I? I might ask: Where were you? Yom Blumer of Mason, Ohio, had this to say: "As I wrote to you immediately after the GOP convention, you seem to be more happy to stand on principle and lose than to see the better guy win the election." Guilty as charged. I will always stand on principle. I will always tell you the truth. I will always do my job as a journalist and muckraker, no matter who is in power. And I won't concern myself with who wins and who loses. I'll let God sort that out. Others explained to me that Bush has a secret agenda. I should be patient, give him time, evaluate the results. I don't believe it. I think he intends to do just what he says. I guess I give the man more credit than many of his supporters. I think he really does believe he can fix the government school crisis in this country from Washington with better programs and more spending. I think he really believes he can and should salvage the Social Security scam. I think he really believes one of the top priorities of his administration should be the implementation of a federal prescription drug plan. What bothers me most about Bush's first speech is that I didn't hear the word "freedom" mentioned once. I didn't hear any synonyms for it either. George W. Bush clearly has a statist agenda. The campaign's over. He's telling us what he really believes, folks. More government, less freedom. That's his prescription for the next four years. Some of the angry letters challenged me to explain what Bush should have said in the first speech -- with the whole nation watching. Does anyone remember Ronald Reagan? Does anyone recall the positive, forward-looking, non-threatening rhetoric that he employed in such situations? I would have promised to get government off the backs of working people in this country -- not with some insignificant tax break, but with the abolition of the IRS. "But Farah," some people say, "he couldn't get that through the divided Congress. He has only a slim majority in the House and Dick Cheney as a tie-breaker in the Senate." Maybe he couldn't pass such a radical action through the Congress. But, if he couldn't, it would be real clear to the American people who stopped it. And that's what Bush needs to do, but won't. Instead, with his compromising agenda, he is going to squander the small working majority he has in the Congress and lose it in 2002. Mark my words. No, folks, don't worry. I'm not going to be beating this drum daily for the next four years. I'm not going to be issuing these wake-up calls five days a week. But I thought it was important for you to hear this message somewhere. This country is in need of a radical change of course. George W. 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