I’m horrified more or less on a daily basis. I don’t watch any of the 24/7 news channels…but I do keep up with what’s going on. And I watch CSPAN a lot (when I’m not writing or watching porn, clearly), and I think Gonzalez might be this Administration’s Achilles heel. Or maybe I’m just stupidly optimistic, because if the nation ignored everything else he’s done, why would the country care about blatant, disgusting corruption and manipulation in the Attorney General’s office and the criminal system with the President’s explicit approval? Still, a person can dream.

As for Clinton….well, I think my husband said it best when he said “I miss having a grown-up in the White House.” Honestly, I miss Clinton so much I would personally sign up to give him daily blow jobs if it meant he could be in the oval office again.

We were actually in Florida with my British in-laws in November ‘00. I spent 3 weeks trying to explain our political process to them, and returned to the UK with less faith than they in how the American government worked. There was a brief upsurge of support after 9/11, but within a year, that had shifted. As the token American, I was subjected to near daily rants about Bush and how his narrow-minded vendettas were exacerbating already precarious world balances. It didn’t matter that I didn’t agree with Bush, that I was actually very against the man and agreed with everything these people were ranting at me about; I was American and that was enough. And these were *Brits*. I shudder to think what other, less supportive countries might say or do in an American’s presence.

Frankly, I wish every American was forced to watch news broadcasts from other countries. They would see Bush and other political figures as the world views them (though, yes, colored through that nation’s eyes). And I really should get off this soapbox now, lol.

To everyone else: I apologize for bringing our boring French politics to this forum. It’s just that we’re a bit depressed to see our country going down the toilet before our very eyes. I’m sure you know how that feels.

It’s a long read but, believe me, worth every word.

“From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all”

I was a so called anti-American before hearing the voice of people like you Johnny, and all your friends… now I tell my friends that despite the greedy assholes in power, there’s a lot of great, gorgeous, lovely people whose faces are not in the media… and with whom it’s worth resist and fight back… (in a buddist way of course)…

Am I not?

AM I NOT?

Shut the f*** up, bloody crickets.