"This Presidency Ended My Pride in America"

Story here (and a nod to Buzzflash for the link) with a snippet from it:

I have a lapel button with this caption: “Proud to be an American, Ashamed of my government.” I will now have to revise the first part to read “No longer proud to be an American.”

What pushed me over the edge was the news that President Bush refused to grant Tony Blair’s request for massive funding to deal with disease and feed starving children in Africa, so it is predicted that millions of African children will die in the next decade.

Bush should be ashamed. Where is all that compassion he so blithely talked about during the election campaign? Now we see him unmasked for what he really is – a phony who tosses cute words and phrases around to get votes and please his base. Is it any wonder that polls show his standing among Americans is at the lowest point of his presidency?

He requested, and a gutless Congress granted, $80 billion for his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – his second request, by the way. But he cannot cough up a few paltry million dollars to save Africa’s children. And isn’t he the one who keeps talking about “No Child Left Behind?” When Bush said “no” to Blair, it seems clear that he was more than willing to leave Africa’s hungry and diseased children behind.

Lest we forget – the Iraq war, which he planned and sold to Congress and America, was based on lies and deceptions. And now Bush wants us to believe that he supports moral values! Give me a break.

To call yourself compassionate, yet show no compassion for those who disagree with you and have no patience for those who cry out for help, that is immoral.

When you claim that our God is bigger than their God, and we are good, but they are evil, then we are like the enemy we are fighting, and that is immoral.