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Alan Bisbort: 'A national disgrace'
Posted on Friday, May 31 @ 10:05:57 EDT
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By Alan Bisbort, Valley Advocate

So many outrages. So little time. Now I know how the millions of decent,
trusting American Catholics must feel about the crimes of their priests and the
cover-ups of their cardinals. Now I know because the president of the United
States may have the blood of his own citizens on his hands.

Up until now, I admit that I've disliked George W. Bush. I've disliked him for
the shady way he gained power, for his pretense of being "a uniter, not a
divider" even as he pushed an agenda that, arguably, 75 percent of the American
people do not share. For his secrecy, smugness and sheer laziness. For being a
pampered frat boy accustomed to having others do his bidding. For calling to
mind what F. Scott Fitzgerald (through Nick Carroway) said about Tom and Daisy
Buchanan: "They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into
their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people come in and clean up the mess they had made."



But now I loathe George W. Bush. It does not feel good to loathe the leader of
the country you love. It is no consolation to know that, as bad as I thought
Bush would be as president before the election, he's much worse than my most
pessimistic fantasies.

I'd like my fellow citizens to be angry. I'd like them to demand answers. I'd
like them to take back their government from people who did not earn it and
who've disgraced it with their actions and inactions (or, to use a Catholic
metaphor, for their sins of commission and omission).

Yes, of course, it's an outrage that the president had advanced warning of the
terrorist acts that occurred on Sept. 11 and either chose to do nothing or was
just pathetically ineffectual. Or, worse, he couldn't be bothered because he
was on one of his several unearned vacations. How does it make you feel, for
example, to know that, even if he couldn't fathom these creeps would fly planes
into buildings