In Other Words

from A political to Anti Bush

So even Graydon Carter is getting involved in Politics this election. If you don’t know who Graydon Carter is think ‘Vanity Fair’, then add the words ‘editor of’ in front and the words ‘for the last 12 years’ behind.

Yeah, that doesn’t mean terribly much to me either, but he’s a big wig. I mean, I don’t know much about magazines, but I do know that Vanity Fair is a magazine (though my knowledge ends about there). Anyway, he’s been an A political editor of one of the biggest Fashion and Celebrity magazines for twelve years that has chosen to remain uninvolved, as much as possible.

He’s just finished an anti Bush book entitled ‘What We've Lost: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Freedoms, Ravaged the Environment and Damaged America and the World’, which is basically a list of all the things Bush has done so far that have hurt America. It’s not so much a book as a loosely collected bundle of facts with a title.

I think the bit that got to me most was this, "We had meetings on the research every couple of days; we went through 30,000 reports - it was daunting, what the Bush administration had done," he says. "I went into this thinking I knew maybe a 10th of it; I didn't know the 1,000th of it. (If you’re wondering where I got that quote from, it’s from an article in the guardian). This was when he had already decided to buy a book, a guy who had not been involved in politics for 12 years finds something that makes him pick up his pen again and start getting involved while he only knew a thousandth of what happened.

I wonder how long it will be before we know the true extent of the damage done by the Bush administration. A lot longer, I imagine, if he gets another four years. Why does anybody support him? Where is the evidence that he’s a good leader? I think I need to actively go look for it, find what the conservatives hold as a good reason for Bush.

I’ll come back with that, as soon as possible.

posted by Symbol @ 31.8.04