You've certainly made your point about not being accustomed to failure. Just put the rest of it in the comments.

By the way, in my first fews posts the same thing happened. Then, somebody let me in on the fact that you can't copy and paste from Word or it cuts off everything after the first paragraph. You have to copy and paste from notepad (unless you just type in the box).

We Americans are not accustomed to failure -- at least when we think of the failure of our government. During the past eight years our America has suffered a series of failures at the hands of the Bush administration.

The string of failure began with 9/11 and Bin Laden's escape from Afghanistan. It continued with a disastrous invasion and prolonged occupation of Iraq, the botched recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the failure of Homeland Security to secure our ports and borders, the failure to establish an effective energy policy, the failure to stabilize the Karzai government in Afghanistan, the failure to establish an effective international trade policy, the failure to regulate investment banking and the failure to conduct effective diplomacy.

The latest failure of the Bush administration is its failure to establish an effective relationship with Georgia, a proposed nominee for NATO membership. The Russian invasion of Georgia, the disruption of critical oil supply lines and the spectacle of an America waist deep in the big muddy of Iraq show that we have plumbed the depths of failure in ways that were totally unimaginable eight years ago.

That is the bad news. The good news is that the Bush administration is limited by the calendar.

Where have the media gone? Is there any reporter who can speak plainly and truthfully to remind us that we have suffered the greatest failure of government in our history? The Bush administration has been a debacle richly deserved by those who voted for Bush and suffered by the rest of us. McCain proposes to continue the GOP policies that have brought on this debacle.

Where is our Walter Cronkite?