Fran Townsend resigns as Bush's Homeland Security Adviser today and presents a hoaky letter of resignation comparing Bush with George Washington. Townsend must be some suck-up because here's is her letter. (Thanks to ThinkProgress.org for pointing this out.)
Townsend writes:
"In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.
"Mr. President, you are such a man. . . ."
But Steve Clemons in his The Washington Note praises Townsend as level-headed and a counterweight to Cheney.
Writes Clemons:
"Fran Townsend, in my view, actually did a very good job and was one of the more reasoned advisers that Bush kept close to him. In my estimation, she was an important balance to Vice President Cheney's national security advisor John Hannah."
Frankly, I cannot understand Clemon's good feelings towards her. Townsend compares Bush to George Washington and include him among the giants who " . . . lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime." About Fran Townsend I have serious reservations and doubts.
Remember Townsend is talking about Bush who:
- refuses to close Guantanamo
- refuses to stop waterboarding or other and worse forms of torture and "harsh interrogation"
- believes in extraordinary rendition (a/k/a kidnapping)
- vetoes the Children's Health Plan
- started the disastrous and foolhardy War in Iraq
- is responsible for the deaths of almost 4,000 U.S. forces
- is responsible for the deaths of over 650,000 Iraqis
- is against habeas corpus for prisoners caught in Iraq or Afghanistan
- believes in the death penalty
- and on and on
And Steve Clemons praises Townsend? Townsend's letter indicates that she thinks Bush is among those giants of men who uplift those with whom they come into contact. Townsend must be as bad as Bush if she really believes her own words. And Clemons must be on some mind-altering drug to praise her.
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