Someone else noted this similarity and lamented how much of our Freedoms we're sacrificing for the illusion of National Security. They closed the lament asking for their Freedoms back. What this person doesn't understand is that the Government - our Government - won't give power back to the people. Most, if not all, Governments won't. If people want power, they have to seize it - hence revolutions. Cute thing is, we may have a legitimate complaint that our Government has taken too much power but if we complain and barely even mention revolution, we'll get branded as Terrorists and lumped in with those idiots who use violence indiscriminately. How convenient that National Security means quelling any type of dissension. Don't believe it now? Vote for Bush and remember his group of bullys have already stated that if you're not with them then you're supporting terrorism. With Bush living under fear becomes the norm, like living under...Stalin. Gosh, have we become the new USSR?

Bush is so mediocre. Here's a President who, when it's all over and he goes to write his memoirs, will have to dictate or get a ghostwriter. That's assuming he even writes a memoir. If Bush weren't from a rich family, I'd expect to see him in Texas at a honky-tonk, getting plastered every night. That's his mentality - mediocre.

But, Little Mr Mahatma, how can you say that about the President of the United States? Bush graduated from Yale and Harvard. He's run Corporations. He was Governor of Texas."

He sure did and by his own admission he was mediocre at Yale which brings in to question - how did he get in to Harvard Business School if his Yale time was average? Connections. And to let in a mediocre rich kid over another (likely highly qualified) applicant is outrageous. Connections got him from Harvard to his Corporation positions but no mail room for him - top of the line buddy-o - and Bush was mediocre. On to the Governor's race where he discovered that by becoming a Conservative can mean victory and he did another mediocre job. And, finally, the Presidency courtesy of Connections where - surprise! - he's doing another mediocre job. No wonder that his Administration is so secretive. They don't want anyone to discover that Bush is...mediocre. But I think the secret is out.