An Infuriatingly Wimpy Message that “America Can Do Better.”
John Kerry’s acceptance speech somehow refused to go after President Bush’s record over the past three and a half years and instead emphasized the message, over and over, that America can do better.
What the hell does that mean? That America’s doing okay, but could be improved?
George Bush has broken every single campaign promise he made. He promised balanced budgets and immediately gave away a thirteen hundred billion dollar tax break that went overwhelmingly to the rich. He promised to bring honesty to the office and lied his way into war. He promised to leave no child behind and cut Head Start as well as entirely defunding Reading Is Fundamental, promised to protect the environment and pulled us out of the Kyoto Treaty, promised to reduce the number of nuclear warheads in the world and cut funding for antiproliferation programs, promised to protect our wild places and opened national forests to logging roads, promised to reduce industrial pollution and rolled back provisions of the C…