A journal post from a non-political site...from a former Bush voter.

I am finally proven right, sadly, regarding George W. Bush. I knew him for what he was from the beginning, a fraud who wanted the presidency for his own personal power trip, and who did not give a rat's bum about how many Americans he floated in the toilet along the way. He has basically floated the entire country in the toilet now, because the rest of the world is so fed up with us, that American jokes are all the rave in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

We only have ourselves to blame for it; Americans are the ones who buried their heads in the sand and put up with it for so long. I knew what he was from the beginning and refused to vote him in for his first term. Unfortunately, I did vote for him the second time around, not because I thought him to be any better or any more honest than before, but simply because I believed that he needed to finish what he started. I also didn't think John Kerry was the man for the job, so I chose the "lesser of two evils". I have never been so wrong in my life, and am ashamed that I, or any of us, gambled with the world's future the way we did.

We Americans will be digging ourselves out of this hole for the next century, probably. From the apathetic ones who didn't even bother to vote, to those like me who never really trusted him, to the ones who tried to make a stand at first, but allowed themselves to be hushed up... We are all to blame, because none of us made enough noise when things began going wrong right from the start. We Americans need to start exercising our right to Free Speech and let our government leaders know who they are supposed to be representing.