by Chris Folsum

Created on: November 29, 2009

What a coincidence! Just today I found a video tape that someone had made of the news during the week of September 11th. I was watching just enough of it to determine what was on the video tape. What I happened to watch was people on the streets being asked what they thought of George Bush right after the tragic events took place.

I listened amused, shaking my head with my back to the screen as people said they thought he had proven himself to be a good president after a weak start, in the face of tragedy. One woman said she believed there was no way he'd ever lose the support he had at that time. That was what made me laugh out loud.

Oh if only hindsight were 20/20, no one would have made such a statement on national television of all places. I wonder how many times her friends reminded her of that statement over the course of the next seven years, in a teasing manner? Because the truth is Bush's nearly perfect approval rating was as short lived as his attention span to Katrina four years later.

George W. Bush was a tragedy to the American people. Everything he did as president will affect us, and our children in a devastating way for many years to come. If the American people realized there truly was power in numbers, Bush would have been at the very least impeached and forced out of office like Nixon, or lynched and hung in the town square for all to see.

Bush was able to avoid such humiliation because he was a great president, a success to the ones with the power to make sure he might come out smelling like a rose or at least not smelling like the pile of dung he truly was, the corporate media. Not the media.

But the main media that decides via its plants at the FCC, like Colin Powell's son Michael Powell, what gets aired and what gets spared, Fox who is owned by News Corp, NBC owned by General Electric another huge corporation that has been running governments since World War II. There are four other big corporations that have ownership and say in what the world hears and sees that I don't care to research the names and add.

The names of the four corporations aren't as important as the fact that there are only four of them. All Bush needed was six corporations in his pocket to pull off voter fraud in 2000, the self-inflicted wounds of September 11, two illegal wars in the middle East, the levee destruction they blamed on a hurricane called Katrina, and a complete and perfectly orchestrated financial collapse at the end of his reign of fighting terror.

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