Let's all play "Where's W?"

Remember that game "Where's Waldo?" where you looked for a character in a busy world of characters doing all kinds of different things? And after hours (or days if you are me) you found Waldo buying peanuts for the elephants at the zoo or some such nonsense. Well I have a new game called "Where's W?". Try to find George W. Bush today. No fair staking out the liquor store nearest his house. Bush is as hard to pinpoint as Dick Cheney was during the Bush administration. Where the hell is he and how sober is he? And why isn't he out stumping for his party and defending his record. Is he that embarrassed about his wretched term in office?

Now speaking of Cheney, you can't swing a dead cat on television without hitting Dick. He's here, he's there, he's everywhere and mostly he is trying to explain things like why Waterboarding isn't torture. My theory is that the political winds have shifted and his little W-hand-puppet can't protect him anymore. To put it plainly, I think Dick Cheney is afraid that he could be prosecuted for war crimes. And he is going around the country telling anybody who will listen why what he did as Vice President was for the good of the country and was not illegal under U.S. law. Like waterboarding. Unfortunately waterboarding is illegal under U.S. law and international law because it is torture.

A Washington Post article (Nov. 4, 2007) tells the story of the Japanese torturing U.S. and Allied troops:

After World War II, we convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war. At the trial of his captors, then-Lt. Chase J. Nielsen, one of the 1942 Army Air Forces officers who flew in the Doolittle Raid and was captured by the Japanese, testified: "I was given several types of torture. . . . I was given what they call the water cure." He was asked what he felt when the Japanese soldiers poured the water. "Well, I felt more or less like I was drowning," he replied, "just gasping between life and death."

And here in the U.S. waterboarding has been found to be illegal torture as we read in that same article:

In 1983, federal prosecutors charged a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies with violating prisoners' civil rights by forcing confessions. The complaint alleged that the officers conspired to "subject prisoners to a suffocating water torture ordeal in order to coerce confessions. This generally included the placement of a towel over the nose and mouth of the prisoner and the pouring of water in the towel until the prisoner began to move, jerk, or otherwise indicate that he was suffocating and/or drowning."

The four defendants were convicted, and the sheriff was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

So clearly Cheney knew his actions to be wrong and now he's feeling cornered.

But what about W? Under his administration every Right Wing Fundamentalist whacko had the ear of the oval office. The Administration held a weekly tele-conference with 30 Evangelical Christian groups. (One of those group's leader, tom Haggard, was found to be a user of Meth and having homosexual relations with a male prostitute for YEARS.) It is these same fanatics in government that tell us this is a Christian nation and the Forefathers never intended for us to have so much drug use, fornication, and general liberal/socialist ideas. (And they'd love to be able to prove that Jesus was a Republican.)

At the end of the Bush administration the Republican party melted down. There were comments like "Rush Limbaugh is the titular head of the Republican party". Rush soon went on his show and "resigned" as titular head and said that he was, rather, the moral leader of the party. I guess 3 divorces and addiction to opiates qualifies you for that.

Now it seems you can't turn around without finding out about some Republican leader getting caught with his pants down around his ankles receiving what is legally known as sodomy from young men or women. Or having an affair in a foreign country. Or divorcing your dying wife so you can take up with a younger, prettier woman. As a class of individuals Republicans rival Catholic Priests.

So go ahead and define "natural born citizen" as somebody who's parents were both natural born citizens and were all born on U.S. soil... and just overlook the fact that the math doesn't work and demand that Obama produce a birth certificate to prove he is qualified to be president. Nobody in their right mind is paying any attention to your pathetic nonsense.

So go ahead and call Health Care reform Socialism and say that it is just the first step on the slippery slope towards Communism.

So go ahead and tell us that there need to be tax cuts and less regulation so the Bernie Madoffs off this country can rob and steal with impunity. What do you care, you still have your Enron stocks to fall back on don't you?

So go ahead and tell us how the United States is no longer the kind of country you believe in since November 2008. But allow me to resurrect a bumper sticker from the late 1960's "America - Love it or Leave it" and take W with you if you can find the drunken sot.