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Friday, 5 November 2004
Nations of North America ::
I guess I would rather believe in a neocon conspiracy than accept the truth as illustrated by this map my mom sent:
Bush’s press conference was being carried live on the radio when it woke me up yesterday morning. Once or twice it seems there are two voices, one voice speaking right before he does, perhaps prompting him? I switch to the TV. The audio is less compressed and I don’t hear the other voice again. Bush is sounding pleasant, composed and confident, with only an occasional strange little burst of shrillness.
The LA Times reporter asks him about the perception that this administration is beholden to big corporations. Bush’s answer is an utter non-sequitur about how 90% of the businesses in the country are small businesses; it’s his standard ode to entrepreneurs.
I’m reminded of a theme from This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America (MoveOn sent this the morning of Election Day):
From his own public comments and my reading of the record, it is apparent that Karl Rove has modeled the Bush presidency on that of William McKinley, who was in the White House from 1897 to 1901, and modeled himself on Mark Hanna, the man who virtually manufactured McKinley. Hanna had one consummate passion – to serve corporate and imperial power. It was said that he believed “without compunction, that the state of Ohio existed for property. It had no other function...Great wealth was to be gained through monopoly, through using the State for private ends; it was axiomatic therefore that businessmen should run the government and run it for personal profit.”
- Bill Moyers
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