I'm not going to make any friends or win any popularity contests with the following, but I don't write commentary based on aspirations of social acceptance.

I once thought Bill Clinton was the greatest example of wasted ability. Granted he was/is a hillbilly with a college diploma – from a pretty good school – but he's still a Joe-Billy-Bob hillbilly who confused Monica Lewinski with domestic policy and couldn't control his diminutive personality pursuant to his lurid desires.

But I had high expectations of President Bush – as presidential material, as a man and as president. As presidential material and as a man, my high regard for him remains unaltered. As president, I am increasingly disappointed, and for good reasons.

George Bush was elected with an overwhelming mandate of the people. Republicans controlled both sides of Congress. Republican governors controlled the majority of states. Yet, instead of capitalizing on these advantages, he has turned a blind eye to what many of his supporters are saying (ideologues do not count).

This president has given us No Child Left Behind, which has not only virtually guaranteed leaving children behind, as teachers teach for test results juxtaposed to learning, but it comes with an $87 billion price tag. He has given us a $6 trillion dollar Medicare prescription program, which many claim is too complicated to be easily understood. He misled his base on the $286 billion highway bill, which he claimed was off the table and would not be signed in 2004 – then five minutes after he was re-elected, the mega pork bill couldn't be signed fast enough.

There is his attempt at sleight of hand pursuant to illegals – not to mention Karl Rove's attempt to stab the base in the back by encouraging La Raza – the radical, extremist, Mexican hate group – to embrace the Senate's version of an immigration bill for "their own good." The Senate bill will grant some version of amnesty to the tens of millions of illegal aliens. The actions of his attorney general, which helped lead to race-based preferences in the University of Michigan Law School case, are inexcusable. But his shameless pandering before the NAACP is beyond the pale.

To equate random and isolated acts of racial intolerance – perceived or real – with a pandemic atmosphere of racism is a damnable heterodoxy – I don't care whose mouth it comes out of. However, for it to come from the lips of a president who should (and hopefully does) know better is disgraceful.

The Republican Party did not "let go of its historic ties" with blacks. To even suggest that, much less state it categorically as Bush did is an affront to all conservatives who have fought for civil rights – from Everett Dirksen to Bush's father, who appointed Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

To call slavery "a stain" that has yet to be cleaned is a grotesquely wrongful analogy, second only to someone claiming abortion is good for unborn children. The only thing missing in Bush's disgusting performance was blackface and formalwear, ala Al Jolson.

Then there came "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006," which is good for 25 years. I was personally insulted and deeply offended by the White House's invitation to attend the signing of same. I ask you: Is there any scenario or circumstance imaginable whereby a black American, being legally registered today or in the future, could be turned away from the ballot box because they're black? It is inconceivable. Furthermore, to reference it as being chiefly necessary because of Southern opinion is an insult to those Southerners who have fought to reverse the legacy of Jim Crow.

America doesn't need a special "black" law to allow blacks to vote. We have the Constitution – all rights and guarantees are found within it. Had the Constitution been adhered to in 1965, the black marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., would have been able to vote. But it was not because of the racist behavior of local officials.

Had Democrat President Johnson federalized the local National Guard as Republican President Eisenhower did in Arkansas, blacks would have suffered no harm and would have been permitted to vote.

President Bush continues to show himself forth as one who is willing to thumb his nose at those who fought to elect him, while genuflecting bottom up to those who curse him. How dare he brand members of the party responsible for the office he holds as residual elements of racism and bigotry!

There is more to being a conservative than lowering taxes, going to war and saying "in God we trust." It is time for us to stop continuing to swallow our sensibilities and call this president what he is – a globalist with a Texas mean streak.

If you don't agree, don't write me. I warned you ahead of time I wasn't writing this to make friends or curry favor.

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