Pat,

Honestly, man, how can you support this gang in the Bush world? This is the worst, most obvious, most self-deluding, destructive, hypocritical, cynical, fearmongering, incompetent, divisive, self-serving, ruthless, backwards, rapacious, two-faced, totalitarian, greedy, short-sighted, criminal bunch of marauders to ever hold the White House, and that's really saying something.

I mean Harding wasnt above running the federal government like it was his own ATM, but at least he wasnt lobbying for totalitarian control. I'm not entirely naive--I dont expect poltics to be the province of some ascended species of saintly philosophers, but keerist!, this goes far beyond any garden variety graft and sex-party type of Administration. These people seem to be genuinely totalitarian in their thinking, and utterly ruthless and contemptuous of important truths or consequences in their sales pitch to the public.

What do you like about these people? What is it that they stand for to you? I ask this out of genuine curiousity, cause I just can't understand what people like about this crew.

How can we see such different qualities in the same people? I just simply don't get it.

Can you explain to me what's attractive about, say Karl Rove and Dick Cheney? or John Ashcroft? or even jolly old Rummy?

I just can't see it. Maybe I'm missing something. Or possibly, you are.

David