Serious Question Bush Supporters
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| Wed, 09-01-2004 - 4:58pm |
One thing that seems to be abundantly clear to everyone, is without exception, all those who are planning to vote for Bush in the upcoming election believe without a doubt that he is the best man to lead us in this time of war, he is the one man that can keep us safe, and the borders of our country secure.
Now, living here in New York, I probably am keeping tabs on this Republican Convention more so than others and catching things as they unfold. This is George Bush's convention, his PEOPLE planned it, orchestrated, planned out and implemented security for the event. George Bush the man who has a plan to win the war on terror, the man who you all believe will keep us safe is the one who will in fact take all the credit (rightfully so) for this convention if all things go well.
So, here is my question...Bush is the man who will keep us safe, and protect our borders. If as you believe, this is so true, then can you explain to me how it is that he and his people cannot even properly secure and keep safe the Republican Convention Hall here in NYC? First a protestor successfully went through the Secret Service screenings, got approved to be a greeter, then worked his way through various check points approved by Bush and his staff, walked right past various Secret Service Agents and got within TEN FEET of Vice President Cheney to deliver personally and upclose his message of protest. Now today, not one, but a small army of protestors again managed to walk right through the security net approved by Bush, made their way through a host of Secret Service and other Security Personel, managed to get not just onto the floor of the Republican Convention, but clear up to the front of said Convention where they successfully managed to hold their protest up front and center stage as they successfully managed to interupt and halt President Bush's Whitehouse Chief of Staff in the middle of his speech!
Now seriously, is this the kind of situation one would expect from the man that you all seem so readily willing to entrust the safety of our nation to?

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That he (or rather, they, the officials organizing the convention) made security arrangements for it does not in any way mean that there won't be individual failures in the security details around the convention. Nor does it not mean that various individuals opposing Bush won't go to great lengths themselves to protest him and his policies... if that means lying or engaging in otherwise overtly deceptive tactics to get in, that's just *their* lack of honesty and integrity showing.
If Bush was *personally* conducting security sweeps and background checks, you might have a point. But he isn't, and you don't, not if your point is to blame him personally for the failures of others, specifically the security officers and officials detailed to prevent incidents like the ones you noted.
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The USSS screwed up here, as did at least a few others, no argument at all. And yes, officials with the convention did assist in setting up security procedures. But to blame Bush personally for those individual failures, or relate the security measures in place there with those in place to defend the country as a whole, is a fatuous argument.
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