On Aug 16, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
the start of this thread was how heartless and mindless Bush is to not
meet
with her. That I think is inaccurate.
As the one who started this thread, I think I have some standing to
assert that it was *not* about how heartless and mindless Bush is to
refuse to meet with her, but how heartless and mindless his manner of
dismissing her shows him to be.
Frankly, I don't understand why the no-doubt-brilliant writers that
support the president haven't come up with a sensitive, but firm way for
him to honor her loss, express his genuine sense of the magnitude of the
pain that his decisions have wrought, but decline to speak to her. If I
worked for him, you can damn well believe I'd have come up with those
words by now, and they sure as heck wouldn't have cited the president's
need to get on with his life and maintain his exercise regimen.
I mean, shit: If Gautam can write a speech for me and Nick to denounce
our imaginary anti-semitism, why the frick can't they come up with a
speech for the president?
"My fellow Americans. You're no doubt aware that a group of
protesters, led by the mother of one of our honored military
dead, has gathered on the road outside my ranch here in
Crawford. She has repeatedly demanded that I meet with her so
she can ask me why it was that her son had to die.
I believe that it is a question that nobody could answer: Why
should anyone have to bury their child? There is no way to
give a satisfactory answer to a question of that magnitude.
She says that she wants to know what was the "noble cause" for
which Casey Sheehan died. That, I can tell you...
He could totally do this.
What's more, I think he SHOULD do it, and not for Cindy Sheehan, but for
the nation and for himself.
It is time for him to set aside the chuckling good ol' boy and stand up
and be a statesman. He has cost this nation nearly 2000 young lives,
left many times that many disabled, and many times more emotionally
wounded. He made the "tough decisions" that are demanded of the
president of the US, and now he should be prepared to stand behind those
decisions, to bear the weight of them. He has cost this nation priceless
international prestige and respect. Show us what all those lives and all
that pain and all that loss has bought.
If nothing else, show that it meant something -- anything -- to him.
Dave
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