2008 Woodie Awards
Student speaks out against Bush, false symbols
Tim Bruderek
Issue date: 2/19/04 Section: Opinion
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After reading last week's article entitled "More Young People Are Going to Vote in 2004," I have realized that America needs our vote now more than ever.
The article not only angered me, but it frightened me. It frightened me to know that people in this country actually think that President George W. Bush is doing a good job. It frightened me that people think that
bombing Iraq was necessary and morally right. It frightened me to think that young people might actually want to re-elect Bush for a second term.
Butka wrote that every vote does count, and that "Al Gore and his entourage of loons might have tried to rig it." This is by far the most backward statement I have heard in the past four years. Gore did not have an equally moronic brother who made up voter names, hid ballots, and lied to the American people about who actually won the election. And let's face the facts: Gore won the popular vote, which means that the American people wanted him in office, not the vapid, war-mongering fool we are now sadly forced to call our "President."
Since Bush came to office, both the economy and the environment have been on a downward spiral. Bush's environmental policy opens up national forests for commercial logging and pushes for domestic oil exploration in protected areas. He is single-handedly ruining our environment.
Also, when President Bush took office there was a $127 billion surplus, and now we are left with a deficit that is expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year. The job market is a wreck.
In Butka's writings about our President's "impressive" past, he failed to mention Bush's previous drunk driving and drug convictions, as well as his friendship with the Bin Ladens and association with the Saudi Government. He also neglected to state that in May of 2003, Bush gave the Taliban in Afghanistan $43 million dollars of American tax money, and that the only planes that were allowed to fly out of the country were members of the Bin Laden family exiting the U.S.
The article not only angered me, but it frightened me. It frightened me to know that people in this country actually think that President George W. Bush is doing a good job. It frightened me that people think that
bombing Iraq was necessary and morally right. It frightened me to think that young people might actually want to re-elect Bush for a second term.
Butka wrote that every vote does count, and that "Al Gore and his entourage of loons might have tried to rig it." This is by far the most backward statement I have heard in the past four years. Gore did not have an equally moronic brother who made up voter names, hid ballots, and lied to the American people about who actually won the election. And let's face the facts: Gore won the popular vote, which means that the American people wanted him in office, not the vapid, war-mongering fool we are now sadly forced to call our "President."
Since Bush came to office, both the economy and the environment have been on a downward spiral. Bush's environmental policy opens up national forests for commercial logging and pushes for domestic oil exploration in protected areas. He is single-handedly ruining our environment.
Also, when President Bush took office there was a $127 billion surplus, and now we are left with a deficit that is expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year. The job market is a wreck.
In Butka's writings about our President's "impressive" past, he failed to mention Bush's previous drunk driving and drug convictions, as well as his friendship with the Bin Ladens and association with the Saudi Government. He also neglected to state that in May of 2003, Bush gave the Taliban in Afghanistan $43 million dollars of American tax money, and that the only planes that were allowed to fly out of the country were members of the Bin Laden family exiting the U.S.