I am not going to lie to y'all. I have been lazy and neglectful. I don't mean to not write, I just have been having some trouble negotiating my free time now that I work and go to school full time. Also, Last week I wrote a wonderful, awe-inspiring essay that linked Africa and Russia and the decline in the intellectual capacityof most Americans and then I pressed delete by accident and it was all gone. I later retreated to my bed to lay in the fetal position, moaning that God has forsaken me.

I wanted to write a minute about Bush's visit to the UN. I am not really going to discuss John Kerry because I am less than thrilled with him at the moment. I think he is doing everything wrong with this campaign and I want to vote tomorrow. If he is going to lose, and I hope sincerely that he doesn't, I want to hurry up and do it already so that I can get on with my Canadian Citizenship application. W.'s visit to the UN reminded me though that even if I move up north, or even to some hacienda in South America, I will never be truly free of his new world order.

Check out the article on yahoo: Bush Emphasizes Humanitarian Issues at UN". Seems like a normal article giving the rundown on his visit and his proposed itinerary.

What struck me was this:

Also Tuesday, Bush meets with the leaders of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (news - web sites), Japan and Iraq. Last year, Bush met with the heads of France and Germany — two of his harshest critics on Iraq. But there are no Europeans on this year's list, and aside from his host, Annan, no sharp critics of the Iraq war.
Finally, he sees Mother Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala.
That final meeting could help Bush with American Roman Catholics, a powerful voting bloc. It is also intended to send a signal about Bush's compassion for the poor.
Bush promised last weekend that he would lay out "some additional proposals to expand prosperity and accelerate the march of freedom in our world." They include efforts to treat and curb AIDS (news - web sites), spread democracy and promote better agricultural methods and education overseas.
"I will talk about the great possibilities of our time to improve health, expand prosperity and extend freedom in our world," Bush said in his weekly radio address.


First, I don't think it is a smart thing to exclude France and Germany from your to do list. It would probably be wiser to discuss with your "harshest critics" of the Iraq war what is going on unless what you have been saying all along is a complete lie and you are not winning the war on terrorism. Are you afraid, Bushie, that they will criticize you to your face? That when the press gathers to take pictures of you posing together and shaking hands like old friends that some how they might stiff you? Make a face, refuse to shake your hand or insult you when the press asks how the meeting is going? It would be a terrible thing to break this bubble that you have been living in, this world that you have created in which you ARE winning the war on terror, the American people love you because everywhere you go the people at the rallies have signed a loyalty oath pledging their undying devotion to you, and the economy is doing great because, hell, all your friends and supporters are pleased as punch with the outsourcing and war profiteering. To have to face criticism now when you haven't faced any since...ever, might rock your world and force you to do something you regret, like snort cocaine off the presidential seal. Oh wait you already did that!

Secondly, meeting with Sister Narmala does not make Bush compassionate with poor people. Bush has always stated (as per his professors and fellow classmates at Yale) that poor people are lazy in his opinion. I might be wrong on this. He may actually really like poor people. That's why he keeps making more and more poor people by helping the rich suffocate the economy. Or perhaps he likes poor people, just not poor Americans. Isn't that why he is such a supporter of outsourcing and manufacturing in third world countries? By third world I mean countries that are paying eight year olds to cut sugar in El Salvador for pennies just so we can dring a Coca Cola.

Finally, while Bush is spreading his homespun version of democracy, he will also be "promoting better agricultural methods and education overseas." I am sure that is music to the ears of farmers in the States who are already suffering from fierce competition, not to mention the Southern Farmers that are suffering from the recent hurricane epidemic. As for education, I am sure that all those children that got left behind from Bush's "no child left behind" plan would love to know that our president's priorities are educating the children of the world that will eventually grow up to work for American companies while they are working the grill at Burger King.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have animosity towards these other nations or the people that reside in them. I just want the conditions for Americans to be realized for what they are and to improve before we start spreading our highly flawed policies to the rest of the world. Not everyone has to do things our way, especially if our way is the wrong way. We have people in our country that are living at or below the poverty level and the numbers are growing. There are children that are falling between the cracks or dropping out fo school all together and the numbers are growing. More and more people in this country can not afford healthcare, can not afford childcare or to raise their children without more than one income, and our environmental policies stink which is why we have been having so many hurricanes.

Your probably not going to win any friends W., with those ideas, but then again, you aren't really trying to. It's all about going through the motions and saying you are doing something so it saves you the trouble of actually having to do it in the first place.