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01/15/2004 Archived Entry: "They get more cynical every goddam day."
They get more cynical every goddam day.
Thankfully, the people of Atlanta ain't buying it. AP reports that they are refusing to move to Bush's First Amendment zones. Good for them.
On last year's Martin Luther King Day, President Bush eloquently honored the memory of Dr. King, saying "I believe power of his words, the clarity of his vision and the courage of his leadership." This year, however, instead of honoring the legacy of Dr. King, President Bush has decided to use Martin Luther King Day as tool to force the federal government to subsidize a fundraising trip for his re-election campaign.The New York Times reports that the President "hastily planned" a visit to Dr. King's grave, and then will immediately go to "a $2,000-a-person fundraiser in Atlanta." Even though Bush may spend the majority of his time hobnobbing with donors at the fundraiser, because he will briefly visit Dr. King's grave, he is allowed to deem the entire trip "official" and then bill taxpayers for portions of the huge cost of hotel rooms, rental cars, security, and travel. And those are no small costs - the Washington Post notes that Air Force One alone costs $57,000 an hour to operate.
Civil rights leaders are outraged at the blatant exploitation of Dr. King's birthday as a tool to force taxpayers to bankroll a political fundraiser. Rev. Timothy McDonald, an organizer of Atlanta's Martin Luther King Day celebrations said, "It's the epitome of insult. He's really coming here for the fundraiser. The King wreath was an afterthought." Despite Bush's platitudes about Dr. King's legacy, he is so focused on his fundraiser - and so neglectful of the Martin Luther King Day celebrations - that he has done little to prevent his visit's security detail from limiting access to a historic black church where a civil rights symposium will be taking place.
In response to Bush's visit, protestors are marching "with bullhorns, signs and thumping drums, shouting for the president to stay away." They say that on top of Bush using Dr. King's grave as pretext for a fundraiser, his policies have directly insulted Dr. King's memory. As Rev. Raphael Allen said, "His administration has never supported anything to help the poor, education, or children. It's all about isolationism and greed for the upper class. That's not promoting the legacy of Dr. King."
Sounds like Bush picked the wrong city, at the wrong time, to piggy-back a fundraiser.
Update: Check this out. The crowd wouldn't leave, so they moved buses in front of them so Bush wouldn't have to disturb his beautiful mind with angry constituents.
Eightball is right. This guy is a fucking coward. Or in Eightheadz' words, he's a pussy.
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I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Posted by Percy Bysshe Shelley @ 01/15/2004 06:52 PM NY
I used to be in a band in Philly called Ozymandias way back in the day.
I know that poem by heart.
Posted by editor @ 01/15/2004 06:55 PM NY
seemed fitting to the topic
Posted by justin @ 01/15/2004 07:40 PM NY
Zell, Zell,
Go to hell,
You're no Democrat,
We can tell.
Posted by Stentor @ 01/16/2004 02:14 AM NY
What I want to know is....Who ordered the buses put there, for what reason and who's paying for it? Since when has the Secret Service been in the business of screening off the image of people protesting the policies of the Administration? Where is the official order that started all of this shit? Who signed it? Why isn't a single politician (of any party) making an issue out of this? If Clark overcomes the Diebold obstacle and gets elected, will the SS continue this policy? Will Republicans accept this as quietly as the Dems have? Will the media suddenly start talking about it?
Is there anyone out there who doesn't understand that the United States government has been overtaken in a silent coup?
Posted by Thurber Hamm @ 01/16/2004 04:03 PM NY
yeah, i would bet that there are a lot of people who dont know that the government has been taken over in a silent coup. last i heard it was running about 50-50% but i would bet that half of those people dont see what is really happening either, they just dont like bush for one of the thousands of other reasons to hate that evil pig fucker. either way, i wouldnt get my hopes up for getting rid of him this year. we will be lucky if there is an election in 2008 if bush wins in 2004. when the power consolidation is complete we are all in a for a world of shit.
Posted by justin @ 01/16/2004 04:25 PM NY
