Bush Earned Our Hate

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.

It took you four years to figure that out? Talk about slow...

The point I hope to get to in this little essay is that those of us who dislike Bush did not simply get up one morning and decide we were going to hate him.

No, you just received your talking points and as they say, 'garbage in garbage out.'

One of my initial thoughts, when I became aware of Bush early in 2000, was,

Wow. You've either lived an awful long time before having initial thoughts, or else they are just few and far between.

He said he was "a compassionate conservative," a bit of nonsense that attempted to satisfy both liberals and conservatives.

I thought that was silly too, bu unlike you, I don't think so little of my fellow Americans as to assume silly comments like that would satisfy anyone.

He said he was "a uniter, not a divider," which was clearly phony, as events have shown.

Oh, come on, look how many clingons from previous administrations Bush let remain in place... he has given libs ample opportunity to unite with us but they still prefer to work with foreign interests to undermine the US.

Americans are about as divided now as they were during the Civil War,

Tell that to Tommie Daschle. He's the one with the hacksaws.

and most foreign countries are scared to death of Bush's quirky, violent decisions.

And that, my 'friend,' is good. Fear is a good deterrent.

And Bush said he was "a reformer with results," another nonsense slogan designed to charm people who don't listen too closely.

Right. He should know that the DNC is WAY PAST any chance for reform.

Looking at the surplus Bill Clinton left behind,

He left no surplus in our oil reserves, and Clinton drained all our respect in the world amid all those retreats and missed shots. By the way- anytime you hear the word 'surplus,' substitute it with the phrase "stolen money. "

Bush said he'd give one-quarter of that windfall "to the people who pay the bills. I want everybody who pays taxes to have their tax rates cut."

You have a problem with giving people's money back to them?

When that surplus vanished, Bush cut taxes anyway and sent "refund" checks out with borrowed money.

No, he returned stolen money back to its owners.

And the big beneficiaries were people in Bush's circle: the rich and the very rich.

Then why does the very Rich Kerry hate him? I'm not rich and any tax cut will be welcome, even those which benefit the people who buy my stuff and keep me employed- those evill wealthy people.

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.

You're angry at him because he doesn't think we should be funding the execution of helpless young people without so much as a fair trial?

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

Since when does anyone NEED to kill a baby? Do you think that killing babies is compassionate?

Bush quickly made it clear he was going to pander to America's fourth branch of government, the Christian fundamentalist extremists.

You mean those horrid people that want to preserve life... stengthen the family, and teach terrible things like *morality?* If they have their way... why, people would be NICE.

By doing so, he showed his contempt for one of the most important principles set forth in our Constitution, the avoidance of a state religion.

No doubt you're one of those trying to make atheism the state religion.

It wasn't long after that turn that Bush,

Turn?

for patently religious reasons, put a damper on stem-cell research.

You think it should be OK to execute the helpless without a fair trial, and then exploit their bodies for your own profit? How come you don't think the people you want to kill should have "choice?"

His actions effectively stopped American scientists from finding life-saving treatments through such efforts.

Nonsense- what good is a life-saving treatment if it all it does is strip life from those individuals who rightfully own it and give it to others who've already had their share? There are other stem cells available for research besides those grisly ones that require the harvesting of human infants. And even if there weren't, there would still be no excuse for murder.

In my opinion, Bush's decision was cruel and inhumane,

You'd think differently if it was you getting aborted.

Why don't you demonstrate your beliefs by supplying your stem cells research? while you're at it, sell off your organs too. We won't miss you at all. Honest!

but certainly worthy of a man who had once mocked the pleas of a woman about to be executed in Texas.

So, you have no compassion for the innocent and defensless, but loads of it for a convicted murderer?

That was it for me.

Oh, come on, be honest- you never seriously considered voting for Bush at all. You'd probably prefer to vote for a baathist or some such thing.

His total disdain for environmental protection was frosting on the cake.

You're idea of environmental protection is no doubt a fraud.

Even though the proof kept coming, I didn't need any more evidence of his lack of concern for human life outside of his elite social group.

You're devoted to abortion and parceling out the stolen tissues of another individual 'for research' and you worry about his concern for human life? Your morality is no higher than that of guards pulling gold teeth out of prisoners before they are to be killed.

The current national discussion on Bush revolves around his decision to go to war with Iraq. ... You don't send American boys and girls off to be killed without knowing with absolute certainty that it's necessary.

It's neccesary. If we don't fight the enemy overseas, we will have to fight them here. We don't want to have to fight the WOT here because there are too many pansy Americans here trying to sell us out to the UN and we really can't trust that kind of 'citizen of the world' to guard our backs.

Bush, hell bent on both avenging Saddam's attempt on his father's life and proving he's a better man than his dad, gambled. He gambled, and our kids lost.

Actually, an assassination attempt on an American president, and American dipolomats like Foley, and having diplomats coordinate efforts to blow up American soldiers as in the Philippines are acts of war. So is aiding and abetting an attack on our mainland. Read up on Hikmat Shakir, Yousef, assorted iraqis caught overseas acting as scouts, etc. The list of Iraqi ties to terrorism is far too huge for you to get away with ignoring.

Now, every time I hear a report of troops killed in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, the site of a neglected war, I grow livid.

Neglected war my butt. You cannot go after al Qaeda without going after them wherever they are. Including Iraq, where they had been guests of the State since bin Laden was still commanding al qaeda from Sudan.

(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?)

We didn't go to war- war came to us. Powell in case you haven't noticed is on our team, not yours. This war - and it was a world war long before Bush became President and started fighting back- was the second to last resort. The last resort is defeat and death, niether of which are very appealing. The threat to neational security is obvious to all but a few political hacks. The fact that we've used overwhelming force is obvious given that we invaded and occupied Iraq so swiftly and are able now to shift forces out of that theater to direct them elsewhere, leaving an increasing number of Iraqis to take up the management of their country. Public support's been there all along, in spite of people like you. The exit strategy is to win. that means a lot of dead terrorists...

Perhaps you should ask yourself why you are trying to undermine public support, knowing that by doing so you are trying to get US troops killed just as Jane Fonda did before you?

Hatred for a Republican president is not a knee-jerk liberal emotion.

Everything leftists do is based either on emotion, money, or or a quest for power. You can't help yourselves- it's your nature.

Opposition, yes, but not hatred. This Bush fellow is a special case.

No, hatred cannot be dumped on you or imposed on you- it is something which comes from WITHIN you. It is a matter of your own personal choice to give in to hate. If you cannot control your emotions, it's your fault.

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