I know the guy wasn't winning any popularity contests but that seems a bit sudden. Given the rather stagemanaged nature of modern politics it seems to have given the Bush opponents an easy point. May be the Whitehouse decided to bury it in what was likely to be a bad news week anyway.
The military itself was the final nail in the coffin so to speak, in my opinion, various generals and military newspapers and magazines were all but demanding his resignation, I wonder why politicians think they can run the military better than the military can. Seems that people just never learn. I sure as hell hope we get some better choices in 2008.
Yeah the press here likes to taunt that idea, if "she" does run, you will see voter turn out in record numbers, The days of the old democratic party and the old republican party are long gone it seems all we get these days is either a liberal or a conservative, both bad choices in my opinion, as both are more concerned with forcing their ideaologies on the public than actually working for them. Winston Churchill said it best... "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Wish we had someone like him around today......
Saw a headline yesterday that said 'Rumsfelt takes the bullet for Bush' - maybe I'm not the only cynical one
Reminds me of Sam Hughes, in English speaking Canada newspapers said resigned but in Quebec the papers said he was fired. Which begs the question wether he resigned or was actually let go. Sam Hughes was the Minister of Militia and he did not do a very good job, his intentions were good but the results were not. History has painted him the same way as the Quebec newspapers have.
