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Bush Should Live Up to 2000 Pledge
By Terry M. Neal
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 18, 2005; 8:04 AM
During the year and a half that I covered George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, I must have heard his stump speech a thousand times. The lines changed little over the months, and the ending almost never changed -- Bush would raise his hand, as if taking an oath, and promise to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
He also vowed to restore civility to the poisonous atmosphere of the nation's capital, declaring at a GOP fundraiser in April 2000 that “it's time to clean up the toxic environment in Washington, D.C.”
Restoring honor and dignity? Cleaning up the toxic environment in Washington, D.C.? Six years after making these pledges George W. Bush heads the most partisan, the most toxic and the most dishonest administration in recent history. Has he actually delivered on any promise that he made to the American people? You have to admit though that the president has demonstrated a lot of courage. It takes a lot of courage, or perhaps chutzpah, to face the American people after sending our soldiers to die in a foreign land in a war based on nothing but lies and exaggeration. Another man would be embarrassed to be seen in public having disgraced the country and the office of the president to such a degree. A man with actual honor and dignity, having made such a mess in Iraq would have resigned. Let's see if Bush will develop some actual honor and dignity and do the only honorable thing remaining to him, resign and leave office in disgrace. But that of course asumes that Bush has a sense of shame and that he actually cares about the welfare of this country. If he did, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
