On the positive effect of Bush's not having Rove on his side...

Perhaps it's the departure of Karl Rove, the ideologue and policy maker for Bush who knows nothing much about. Perhaps it's the eventual realization by Bush that his legacy (with 1.5 years left in office) is going to get whittled down to an aimless and needless war, and a huge deficit (and more to come).

So, he's doing things fast, back-tracking on most everything that his administration had opposed to so vehemently. There is the global warming issue (he refused to even acknowledge that it's real and happening). And now, there is the acknowledgment that Americans have concerns about globalization, although there is the I-will-veto-unnecessary-spending-bill-from-Congress, when he sucks up all dimes and nickels from basic service in America to fund his war. (Who is the biggest spender anyways, that moron called Bush!?!)

It's easy to show sympathy, but he had always had short supply of it (even though he SAID he has it - go figure). He ran his campaign on being a compassionate conservative, but I'm not sure where his compassion lies (perhaps more to his corporate buddies).

Perhaps at the guidance of Rove and the urge of Cheney, Bush would stick to his script. He would not acknowledge the effect of free trade to American workers who lost jobs as a result of free trade; or to victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita who lost homes, lives, and everything; or to American public in acknowledging how grave a mistake he made in taking the country to war in Iraq; or to studies after studies that America is losing its competitive edge.

No matter, six years on, most people (or those 50% of the country who voted for him) would realize how much of a "leader" they had signed on to. How aimless and planless this guy is.
Now we know the emperor has no clothes on. The naked truth.

It is rightly ironic, to see how Al Gore, the loser in the 2000 election to Bush, has rised from ashes, pouring his intellect and vigor into a worthy cause of global warming, starting a grass-root movement that shows Americans how he can lead by example and the whole world would listen, collecting an Oscar and an Emmy along the way, making some bucks starting a business (Current TV), and now, tipped to win a Nobel Peace Prize (due out Friday).

Bush must be looking on (to Gore) with so much envy. It's only now when Bush tries to show a humble side, even just by acknowledging someone else's pain (that American workers must have the faireness, given the outrageous executive pay package)?!? I'm sorry to say, it's six years too late, mate. For an incompetent fool like Bush (though he might be a good person at heart), I would have loved to see Hilary Clinton kicks him out of office, come 2008.


PS: I must have sounded so bitter and cynical, writing all these about Bush. I really can't help it. I just don't understand how those stupid GOPs and whoever the Dems are in voting for him, couldn't come to see that, AND VOTED FOR HIM TWICE!!! It has been so freaking obvious. It's like seeing someone marching down the cliff, and you try to tell him to turn back, and they would yell hallelujah.

PPS: Oh well, those are history now. We should move on. I should move on. Afterall, the bright side is, there can never be a third term for Bush.