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Son of a VET
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 Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject: LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN |
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This is going to piss you off:
| Quote: | LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN: BUSH WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Fri Oct 08 2004 09:46:43 ET
In a Los Angeles Times column (10/8 ), Jonathan Chait says, "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."
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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm
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fr11
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN |
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| Son of a VET wrote: | | This is going to piss you off: |
Yep, you're exactly right.  
Man I hope Bush stomps Kerry in the debate tonight! |
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neverforget
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I guess my e-mail to them yesterday did no good. Chait, another critic on the sideline.
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MichaelP
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN |
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| fr11 wrote: | | Son of a VET wrote: | | This is going to piss you off: |
Yep, you're exactly right.
Man I hope Bush stomps Kerry in the debate tonight! |
This is good article about the left hatred!
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/trfehrenbach/stories/MYSA100304.03H.fehrenbach.d4837189.html
T.R. Fehrenbach: Hate W.? Well, what you see is what you get
Web Posted: 10/03/2004 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
George W. Bush has generated more anger, angst, hatred and attacks than any president in modern times. Presidents since John Adams have invited ridicule and opposition, but W. may be unique.
More articles, books and films have bashed him than all the others in my lifetime. Intellectual/middle-brow magazines such as New Republic and American Prospect and liberal newspapers like the New York Times print statements calling W. "the worst president in U.S. history" and "incomparably more dangerous than Reagan or any other president in this nation's history."
About the only name he has not been called is the Antichrist, but that's not in the liberal-progressive lexicon. In short, as the Enquirer put it, W. has "driven liberals stark raving bonkers," and that's the best description I can think of.
Why?
Media and political opponents set forth the usual suspects: the war in Iraq; the economy; the deficit; jobs; the homeless and uninsured; health coverage; lowered taxes on the rich; abortion; same-sex and other opinions; ticking off the United Nations and U.S. allies; and Dick Cheney.
These do provide reasons not to love a sitting president, but they have all been argued and fought over before. Why has W. aroused so much venom and calumny and misfired brain synapses, the most in recent history?
Methinks there are a stew of ingredients, each cooking up an explosive mess in the liberal psyche. I list some:
W. sashayed out of Texas, unashamed of it, with few credentials and convoluted syntax, disdained by most of those who pontificate, write and publish. (The same sort snorted at Harry Truman, LBJ and Reagan.) Few grasped the fact that "gentlemen's C's" from Ivy League schools have often run both enterprise and the country, hiring magnas to handle the details.
Scandalously, W. was successful. He ousted the party in power despite (then) prosperity, besting an experienced candidate in debate, eking out a carefully crafted Electoral College victory and surviving legal challenges. Self-classified smart people cannot forgive being made fools of by someone they think is dumber than they, not now, not ever.
Then the smart money said his win was so thin he couldn't do much, maybe not even govern. But W. acted like a leader who'd won 48 states — he was president, employing all the latent powers the Founders placed in the office. He hired his kind of minds and panjandrums to direct the nation; he pushed the things he'd promised, with little interest in compromise.
W. tossed his social-conservative constituency raw meat: opposing same-sex marriage, abortion, stem cell research and supporting religion. (Where Reagan hinted, W. played smash-mouth.)
He threw cold cash to the entrepreneurial classes, excluding entrepreneurial lawyers. This was insult on top of injury to dissidents.
When the felicitously opportune Osama bin Laden assisted with 9-11, W. tested a new foreign policy emphasizing pre-emption. (Madam Albright talked a good game, W. played hardball.)
Believing that the twin towers changed America, and thus the world — whether people understood it or not — W. pushed a surge in governmental powers, scaring the left into near-apoplexy. (The left does not mind Big Brother, but only when Brother is one of theirs.)
W. believes that compared to national security, all other issues fade into historical insignificance, and he realizes that no American president ever has, ever can or ever will allow foreigners to dictate U.S. policy, however much it ticks off peace parties and foreigners.
His economic policies angered all (though they dare not speak it) who favor redistribution in their hearts. His education policy — more federal funds than ever in history — is detested by educators because it was a start on accountability, which they fear more than the devil abhors holy water. He allowed the GOP to spend like drunken Democrats in pursuit of power, upsetting not only Democrats but some Republicans.
He made an openly Christian believer attorney general and believes faith must play a role in American society. Whoa! Unlike Clinton, he has little regard for movie stars. Hollywood hates it when it gets no respect. He does not read published criticism but has hires dissect and defuse it. (He acts like an executive rather than a Jimmy Carter.) That makes self-important editors who believe they should be running the country candidates for strokes.
There's more, but you get the picture. With W., what you see is pretty much what you get. And for his opponents, the most unbearable thing of all is that more Americans seem to like him than they like his detractors. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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I've said it before, but it bears repeating:
Beware the elitist! Elitists are those who think themselves intellectually and morally superior to everyone else. Therefore the elitist rationalizes that he/she must do all the thinking and everyone else must follow. Elitists are infinitely more dangerous than liberalists. (Of course, to keep themselves on top of the heap, elitists must denigrate any opposition.)
Totalitariasm, Facism, Communism, etc. (i.e., virtually all non-democratic forms of government) are rationalized on the elitist argument. |
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Kimmymac
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More than rationalizing, Ankler, the elitist bassturds are actually behind these agendas. If you look at the roots of these movements (fascism, Naziism, Islamofascism,etc.)you will see a tightly knit group of intelligentsia that are looking to increase their power base by limiting others. The "lessers", if you will. To take just one such example: Hitler was not created in a vacuum. He had the support in this country of many of the anti-war elitists, who kept America out of the war until it was dam near too late.
Stop me if this sounds familiar.
The other reason these people hate Bush is really very simple: Bush is a man who loves God and is endeavoring to do His will. The Bush-haters are evil, and hate everything George Bush stands for.
Period. |
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Son of a VET
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Love the creative spelling.  I have a mental picture of a large mouth bass taking a dump. 
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azpatriot
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| Kimmymac wrote: | The other reason these people hate Bush is really very simple: Bush is a man who loves God and is endeavoring to do His will. The Bush-haters are evil, and hate everything George Bush stands for.
Period. |
And that’s hitting the nail squarely on the head!
When you corner one of these Bush haters and press them for an honest explanation as to why they have such hatred of him, they can’t come up with anything. They spout out something and you disprove it and it goes like that for a few minutes while they get more and more angry until they are ready to burst.
That’s when I calmly but sternly say, “Hey! YOU are the one frothing at the bit! YOU are the one that’s spewing vial poison from your lips! YOU are the one with the problem! Not George Bush!” and then add, “The reason why you hate him is because he openly has a relationship with Jesus Christ! It’s where his heart and soul are aligned and not anything wrong that he has done!”
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| azpatriot wrote: | | Kimmymac wrote: | The other reason these people hate Bush is really very simple: Bush is a man who loves God and is endeavoring to do His will. The Bush-haters are evil, and hate everything George Bush stands for.
Period. |
And that’s hitting the nail squarely on the head!
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EXACTLY! Bush is so reviled because he has made it clear that he is a Christian. For that the atheists and agnostics hate him. No other reason. |
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Son of a VET
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I have only meet one atheists in my life. When I was in the USAF, myself (non-dem christian) and a friend (Jewish) where have a talk about Faith and God, he butted in and was just rude. We quickly sent him on his way. It's not enough for them to have their view, they feel they have to push it on you.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Son of a VET wrote: | | I have only meet one atheists in my life. When I was in the USAF, myself (non-dem christian) and a friend (Jewish) where have a talk about Faith and God, he butted in and was just rude. We quickly sent him on his way. It's not enough for them to have their view, they feel they have to push it on you. |
Yep Ala Madelyn Murray O'Hair |
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