It seems that some people just can’t get over Al Gore losing the very
tight election to George Bush, and if anyone ever needed the proof that
one vote counts I think they have it now beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Al Gore is a good man with the best interests of America at heart. A
lot of us just don’t happen to agree with how he would go about leading
this country, but I will readily agree that he is an honorable man. If
he had become president I probably would have criticized the things he
did which I disagreed with, but I certainly would not have hated him.
The same is not true with some of the other side and George Bush. They
literally hate him and accuse him of everything but the leaning of The
Tower of Pisa. He has been accused of going to war for oil, to avenge
the thwarted attempt that Saddam Hussein made on the life of his father
and a plethora of ignoble things domestic and foreign.
Even when he makes an effort for the causes so cherished by the left,
they will not give him credit for it. If Bill Clinton had mounted a
major offensive against AIDS in Africa the homosexual community and
Hollywood celebrities would have been doing back flips and elevated him
to a place approaching sainthood in their eyes.
Yet when President Bush proposes to spend billions of dollars to help
Africa with it’s pandemic hiv problem, nary a word of praise emanated
from the gay community or tinsel town.
Bush wins a war and they rant and rave about the collateral damage.
Bill Clinton bombs an aspirin factory, taking innocent life and there
is nothing but a loud silence from the left.
Bill Clinton had a chance to take Osama bin Ladin into custody on three
different occasions and did nothing about it, still no
criticism from the left. President Bush goes after Bin Ladin with both
barrels blazing and still nothing but disdain from the other side.
Is there not a double standard? Why did the radical feminine groups
stay silent on Bill Clinton’s treatment of women? The brazen insult to
Paula Jones, the fondling of Kathleen Willie, the relations with Monica
Lewinsky in the Oval Office and heaven only knows how many others.
Why do they accuse President Bush of lying about something that I’m
sure he thought was the truth and give William Jefferson Clinton a
clean bill of health when he looked into the television cameras and
told America and the world a bald faced lie, which he knew was not true.
No man is perfect, and I know that George Bush is not. When I disagree
with him I say so. He makes mistakes and uses poor judgment at times.
We all do.