Lee Iacocca Excoriates the Bush Administration

Mr. Iacocca, I have trolls who'd ask "when did you become a muslim?" That's O.K. The same dim-bulbs would have asked when you beccame a communist, just 10 or 15 years ago. This sort is stupid enough to celebrate the criminals that you so accurately identify.

Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.

You know...

[HomelessInLaJolla]

<sarcasm>If Mr. Iaccocca would just check into the St. Vincent de Paul program, or get a menial job swabbing toilets at McDonald's, then I'm sure the greater wisdom of his betters would dawn on him and he could realize how utterly childish, arrogant, and self-centered he sounds.</sarcasm>

It all sounds so familiar.

While I see your JEs come down the firehose it seems that there's a devoted group of haters who watch the firehose like a hawk to vote mine down into a deep well almost before I click "

bah

[eglamkowski]

Bush is merely the culmination of 100 years of bad politics and bad policies. It's too late to save the ship, it was set on this course long before you and I were born, and the iceberg long since started ripping into the hull. We're at the point now where people start scurrying to abandon ship. The only chance we have to merely just delay the doom a little bit longer is for Ron Paul to win in 2008, but he won't have a snowball's chance in hell.
Start looking for your life raft now before everyone else fig

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[HomelessInLaJolla]

I don't think it will ever turn into outright doom. The gap between rich and poor will continue to widen, more people will default on their home mortgages, uber rich corporations will revert to fiefdom style housing for their lemminglike employees, and the wealthy profiteers will continue to take longer and more luxurious vacations while assuring the working class that they too could have a life of pleasant happiness if they would only take on another job and dig their way out of debt. Those workers who c

Wow

[ces]

Just wow. Makes you realize just how off the rails we've gotten in the past 15-25 years (depending on how you count).

I mean Iacocca isn't exactly anti-capitalist or even that much of a bleeding heart.

His central question is one I've been asking for at least the past year. I'm hoping one of the various candidates for President shows he or she is a true leader. I also think this is why many are hoping Gore will jump in the race.

Indeed where the fuck have all the leaders gone?

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[ces]

Though as someone pointed out elsewhere where was Mr. Iacocca in 2000? 2001? 2002? 2003? 2004? 2005? or even 2006? Perhaps if he'd spoken out earlier some of the damage could have been mitigated.

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[RM6f9]

Ditto/my sentiments exactly - the timing is more than a bit suspicious on this one... detracts somewhat from the items expressed by Mr. I, which I've long been echoing...

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[eglamkowski]

Hey, I've been saying "Throw the bums out!" for years and years and years. It's the two-party "throwing your vote away" mentality that is preventing the kind of change we really need. First we need to change the attitude of the public, then we can fix the government. Until then, we're screwed.