Posted on 10/08/2004 12:31:46 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN: BUSH WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY Fri Oct 08 2004 09:46:43 ET
In a LA TIMES column, Jonathan Chait blasts: "To say that I consider Bush a 'bad' president would be a severe understatement. I think he's bad in a way that redefines my understanding of the word 'bad.'
"I used to think U.S. history had many bad presidents. Now, my 'bad' category consists entirely of George W. Bush, with every previous president redefined as 'good.'
"There's also the fact that, on a personal level, I despise him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. What I'm saying is, advocating Bush is kind of tricky." But "what I'll argue instead is that his very awfulness is the reason he deserves reelection. Begin with the premise that a second-term Bush administration is unlikely to make things a whole lot worse." Bush's presidency "is a great mass of contradictions. There's an enormous gap between his purported values - fiscal discipline, toughness against terrorists, a commitment to social conservatism - and his true record.
"Sure, it would be emotionally satisfying to see Bush rejected by the voters once again. But maybe, for this president, defeat is too kind a fate."
I KNEW I heard that somewhere! lol... what a horrible hacked-out screed.
How do they publish this with a straight face?
Busted!
They are liberal.
If he's going to go that far, he might as well have the balls to go all the way and say what he really means: he wants to see Bush murdered in office.
You know that's what he's getting at...
Izzn't that called PLAGERISM or izzit just plain TRITEness....
You have to send this to Powerline and Hugh Hewitt....include the Diane Chambers quote he stole.
There's also the fact that, on a personal level, I despise him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
Uh... why does he think anyone cares how he "feels"?
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
-John Kerry
Wow, I just can't get over the fact that the L.A. Times feels this way...
I would have never pegged them for a liberal rag...
LMAO
Give it a rest LA Times
LA TIMES and OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS in the same line - ROTFLMPO!!!!
Sounds like a lot of people I go to school with... Lucky me... Although, this kind of Bush-hater makes it easy for us to ridicule them.
Two words,
Jimmy Carter
nobody was ever that bad and its not likely anybody will ever be that bad again and any differing opinion is just plain wrong.
By running this column, and silently consenting to its' content, the LAT has forsook all pretense of obectivity.
They haved moved through bias, and are now Partisan.
I never read them.
Did these people think Jimmy Carter was the best or something. What a doofus.
No matter what you think of Bush, there is no way anyone could come up with any argument that he is worse than Carter or Johnson. The economy was much worse under Carter, and Johnson's unnecessary war cost 55,000 American lives.
Woodrow Wilson.
So I guess in their opinion, that makes Jimmy Carter the best. Sorta tells you something about the value of their opinion, doesn't it?
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