explanation at last!
May. 24th, 2004 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apparently it is now detrimental to national security to say the presdient is an incompetent jackass. No wonder it's taking me so long to get my clearance!
As several others have done, I suggest we all write our representatives, and maybe send Mr DeLay a note as well
The Hon. Tom DeLay
242 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
The Hon. Tom DeLay
Office of the House Majority Leader
H-107 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
just to remind them that criticism of our elected leaders is not just a right, it's a duty.
If you need a good quote or two to include, you might look here. One of the better ones is:
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
Apparently it is now detrimental to national security to say the presdient is an incompetent jackass. No wonder it's taking me so long to get my clearance!
As several others have done, I suggest we all write our representatives, and maybe send Mr DeLay a note as well
The Hon. Tom DeLay
242 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
The Hon. Tom DeLay
Office of the House Majority Leader
H-107 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
just to remind them that criticism of our elected leaders is not just a right, it's a duty.
If you need a good quote or two to include, you might look here. One of the better ones is:
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
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Date: 2004-05-24 06:07 pm (UTC)Another thing that pisses me off: Why does the U.S. have this weird tradition that the major party that occupies the Oval Office holds its nominating convention after the other party? Each nominee usually gets a "bounce" in the polls right after the convention, and so I have this fear that Dubya will get his "bounce" and manage to ride it all the way to Election Day. :-( :-(