Bush Earned Our Hate

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Monday, February 2, 2004 | Harley Sorensen

[presidio9]

I would like to say a kind word about George W. Bush: He's usually not as dumb as he pretends to be.

Acting dumb is Bush's style. He likes to sandbag people. He plays dumb, people underestimate him and, all of a sudden -- wap! He nails them.

[motzman]

McDonald's is delivering these days?

LOL! They do take plastic now!

[Robert A Cook PE]

True.

So true.

[Riley]

His generosity?!? It's our money. Congress was to collect money and spend it on certain specific expenditures, not whatever floated across someone's desk. This includes every single bit of pork on both sides of the aisle

Standing on my chair, applauding.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

"First thing I'm gonna do is raise your taxes"

Things are starting to look bad for W. Alas!

[Capt. Tom]

Whatever happened to the Powell Doctrine, which insisted that we shouldn't go to war except as a last resort, that a clear risk to national security must exist, that we must use overwhelming force if we do fight, that the decision to fight must have strong public support and that we must have a clear exit strategy?)

It was trumped by the Bush Doctrine of not waiting for an enemy to strike us. -Tom

[redhead]

"Seriously, that's Bush's brilliance. He gives his enemies more rope and more rope and more rope and they just tie it in a little noose and put it around their neck all by themselves. The Taliban, Saddam, the Democrats (here, I repeat myself). He does it every single time and nobody catches on."

Elegant strategery. I don't know where he learned to play it so well, but he has lured them out onto thin ice time after time. My mom used to say what you just said: "Give them enough rope, and they'll hang themselves."

[dodger]

"In spades".

HATE SPEECH! HATE SPEECH!!!

[Riley]

Things are starting to look bad for W. Alas!

Pardon me for veering off-topic, but Ted Cassidy will always be Lurch.

[Spiff]

Deliberately restricting a medical procedure to people in need is hardly compassionate.

And killing millions of babies (at a rate of 150,000 per day worldwide) is somehow compassionate!!?

[AxelPaulsenJr]

McDonald's is delivering these days?

Is Jim Cain as big an arse as I think he is?

[BlueNgold]

I knew when I saw the SFChron byline I should just hit the back button and move on, but, no, I must be a masochist (all you SF lurkers just keep to yourselves, it was allegorical), because I read through every word of this tripe. I deal with this crap every day out here on the left coast, and when challenged on specifics beyond the sound-bite rants that this article uses and abuses in full glory, they have NOTHING to offer. Many are completely uninformed and most are oblivious. I asked one why they continue to support the Dems who AUTHORED the NCLB, and they look at me like lost sheep. I ask them why the continue to support Dems who want even MORE tax money to be spent on prescription drug plans and they sit shocked to realize it is new and not a cut in an existing program. I ask them what their objections to the Clean Air Standards are and they sit amazed that their energy bills might double without any decrease in pollutants to be found if the standards had been enforced for re-fit. The ignorance of the left and the reliance on sound bite antipathy and the constant fanning of the flames of hatred without substance is what is dividing our country. It's sad, but the left can't seem to see through the depleted ozone to get a clear view ...

[Britton J Wingfield]

people underestimate him

That would be "people misunderestimate him"

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'll state my position in simple terms. Overall I am very pleased with Bush. Add to that the Liberals hate his freakin guts.

Those combined tell me the Bush gets my vote in 2004 hands down.

CG

[princess leah]

I was watching the history channel last night and they were talking about the change in the navy ships from wooden to iron and then all the offensive weaponry and 1 man in the 1880s stated that "America must not remain an isolist nation" "we need to defend America in an offensive manner which will require a full naval military"...within 2 decades we had overhauled our ships and become the 2nd largest navy in the world (behind England). This guy had the same philosophy as Bush does now - Pre-emptive offense to PROTECT the homeland and NOT be isolationist!

[cmak9]

I started to get angry with Bush when he started his term as president by effectively cutting off American funds to foreign organizations that might provide abortions for poor people. Deliberately restricting a medical procedure to people in need is hardly compassionate.

Calling the murder of an unborn baby "a medical procedure" might be this guy's first mistake.

[Vision Thing]

If you make your business decisions in the same way you make your voting decisions, your business will probably never grow beyond the small business category.

[Riley]

The ignorance of the left and the reliance on sound bite antipathy and the constant fanning of the flames of hatred without substance is what is dividing our country. It's sad, but the left can't seem to see through the depleted ozone to get a clear view ...

Very well said. I was born in California, as was my father, and his and his and so forth, back to the Bear Flag days. I finally gave up on the place. It pained me to do it, and I sometimes still miss my native soil, but I have a lot less frustration from trying to talk sense into the willfully ignorant.

[tapatio]

Okay, okay I got it.LOL!

[BlueNgold]

I'm just waiting for the lily white conservative purist to get toghther with the hate mongering leftist extremist so that they can throw there very own little schizophrenic hate Bush party.

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[Scenic Sounds]

Well, I know that you'll find this upsetting, but I think that the reality is that you're approaching this from the wrong direction. A lot of people think that our courts are unduly activist, but the reality is that our courts very rarely interfere with programs that Congress determines to be constitutional, unless the program violates some specific constitutional prohibition. Two recent cases (Lopez and Morrison), relating to the power of Congress under the commerce clause, have provided a tiny bit of hope that the courts might become more activist, but not nearly activist enough to strike down something like funding of the arts.

The reality is that, except for those limitations, Congress (subject to Presidential veto) more or less determines for itself the limits of its own constitutional power to act with regard to such matters. If you want a smaller federal government, you need to elect different people to Congress.