Pres. G.W. Bush read the papers every day. Watched the Televised News Media everyday.
The Left wanted to charge Mr. Bush with War Crimes.
The Left wanted to have Congress proceed with Impeachment.
The Left made a movie about Mr. Bush's assassination.
Did Mr. Bush complain about the Left Bloggers?
Did Mr. Bush complain about the news media stories, Dan Rather's documents of the service records?
Did Pres. G.W. Bush complain at all?
This must make Pres. G.W. Bush a more capable President than the current Commander in Whiner.
A week doesn't go by without Pres. Obama complaining about Fox News, or the Bloggers.
There were The Big 3 News Media ragging on President Bush. And don't forget NPR and Move On.Org.
Only one little ole Fox News bothers the current President.
If free speech is a problem, then there must be a resignation in the works.
This is the USA, Love It Or Leave It.
It serves always to distract the public councils and feeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves with in their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
…George Washington’s Farewell Address…
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