In a rare moment of not talking about anal sex, Wonkette describes Bush's performance at the UNITY Conference of minority journalists (Official White House transcript).
She describes how his usually crowd pleasing call for tort reform was met with silence, and points to this amazing exchange:
THE PRESIDENT: Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.
But the real story comes as the president tries to rename and reframe the "War on Terror:"
No, that's what they do.
He was serious. They laughed at him.
I share Wonkette's excitement about Bush's first salvo in the War on IEWDNBIFSWHTUTAAWTTTSTCOTFW, which must surely be coming against the Ashcroft Justice Department. They may then want to turn their guns on the Bush/Cheney campaign, who -- for the love of free societies -- have been having retired steel workers arrested by the Secret Service for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at campaign rallies.
Last May, the Department of Homeland Security issues an advisory to local law enforcement agencies directing them to keep a close eye on any citizens who have, "expressed dislike of attitudes and decisions of the US government."
Besides being absurd on its face and so awkward as to provoke a room full of journalists to laugh out loud, the president's renaming is a clever (well, relatively) way of getting away from 9/11 and Al Qaeda. We're not at war because of the tragic attack on our country 3 years ago, and we're not at war with those who carried out that attack. We are at war with ideologues who hate freedom.
I actually agree with the president. This evil enemy will use any tactic to maintain their strangle hold on power and to suppress those who would disagree. They will fill their government with like-minded ideologues and base their laws and policies on extreme religious faith instead of on the consent of the people. It is these people we are at war with. They seek to destroy all the principles that make our country great and we must not stop until they are gone. We must not let them win.
Vote Kerry. It's our only hope.
