Peter Berkowitz tackles Bush Derangement Syndrome for the WSJ;
It’s not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene.”
The “intellectual class” beg to differ…
“How can you calmly accept a retarted warmongering coporate…whore like Bush?”
h/t Maz2
I don’t think much of Bush but it’s because he’s run up a huge deficit based on liberal type spending.
In fact I wonder why they hate him, he funds the types of programs they like?
“How can you calmly accept a retarted warmongering coporate…whore like Bush?”
At least he can spell better than the “intellectual” class.
Bush-hate has invaded wall street…I saw a clip of Wall Street investors applauding Ron Paul as he trashed Bernake and the Bush regime for irresponsible monetary policy…The nere do well Dems should love Bush…he made it possible for deep credit risks to buy a home they can’t afford. 😉
It would be much easier for the general non-US political “right” to defend and/or explain Bush had he:
– Been very clear about non-acceptance of torture and adherence to the Geneva convention
– Closed (or never opened) Guantanamo, as well as the (rumoured) secret and off-site detention centres.
– Fought against budget deficits, instead of embracing them.
– Had very principled positions for free trade and against domestic subsidies.
– Showed better judgement as for what external targets to pursue (and how to pursue them).
– Been as eloquent as his father. (Bush II really does not express/explain himself very well.)
I am now hoping for Giuliani. Hopefully he would follow through with his economic and socially liberal policies, and hopefully avoid too many infringements on my civil rights. (He has the potential to rally the Reagan crowd behind him.)
The only possibly acceptable Democrat would be Obama, but he seems too much of a light weight (at least for now).
To the same bunch of so called intelleciuals who comapare bush to hitler HITLER+STALIN=CLINTON
To the same bunch of so called intelleciuals who comapare bush to hitler HITLER+STALIN=CLINTON
I don’t think it has anything to do with his policies.
I think the Left wants a president like they see on The West Wing, like they see in Rob Lowe’s presidential candidate on Brothers & Sisters. The type of guy who’s overly in touch with his feminine side, all emotional, weepy and sappy. The type of guy they’d like to invite to their parties and literally rub up against, both women and men.
Bush is “dumb” because he’s none of those – he doesn’t bring out the metrosexual in the Left.
Someone with real foaming-at-the-mouth Bush hatred is telling us far more about him/herself than about Bush.
“[Just because I HATE Bush doesn’t mean I am insane. I just want to take every member of this EVIL regime and waterboard them in The Hague. Then I want to personally drop to the ground and bite their toes while growling viciously like a rabid dog. OOOOH! I HATE YOU!!! OOOOOH! OOOOOH! OOOOOH!!! …But I’m NOT insane.]”
This is an example of intellect – posessing an IQ equal to a common house plant, that is.
And they wonder why they’re called moonbats.
There are some things I think Bush has done well. Other things not so well.
I think the appeasement towards the enemy ideology is wrong. To repeat the ridiculous ‘religion of peace’ mantra and to perpetrate the lie that Islam is one of the great Abrahamic faiths, runs counter to his own stated belief. As Islams political/shariah ideology also runs counter to the US Constitution. Bush, for all his cosying up to the Christian right, is also a universalist.
‘The war on terror’ is a misdirect as well. How can you win a war when you can’t even define what it is?
The deficit he’s created runs counter to bedrock Conservative values.
The porous Mexican border fiasco and his handling of it is beyond belief.
However, he has taken the war to the enemy. Putting it on their turf, rather than ours. There hasn’t been a terrorist strike since 9/11 either.
Overall though, it’s the rabidly deranged, moonbat left that has to be put out of our misery, far more than Bush.
I’m always wary of the term ‘intellectual’ because there is no such thing in the real world. There are only doers and fence sitters.
Bush is a doer. A doer has no time for silly girly-boy fence sitters (also known as your garden variety ‘intellectual’). A doer takes on the responsibility to get the job done – and they serve their nation and the world.
I think we all know that maintaining hatred is ultimately harmful to the hater. It certainly takes away any joy one may have in one’s life. It does keep the heart rate and blood pressure up which is not healthy. It also repels other people who may be a positive addition to one’s life, but they don’t happen to be haters.
Being a miserable wretch of a hater can also harm your job prospects and advancement since one cannot really perform well in an advanced state of hate-mongering. I could go on with this, but I think you get the point.
The greatest harm and damage being generated here is to the haters …. and I like that a lot.
It is also what I like about Islamo-fascists.
Take a moment and go to Dummie Funnies homepage and scroll down to the Socialism 2007 conference video. It’s hard to decide whether to laugh or cry. You come away feeling sorry for these misguided but well meaning kids and infuriated at today’s school system that has given them zero in critical thinking and logic skills to process the world with.
When you don’t have some grounding in history, economics and civics, kids like these spewing undigested cliches is what you get.
I think a lot of the BDS adults out there are just fossilized versions of those kids with the same deficits.
As John Q. Wilson pointed out in a series of WSJ editorials on education a while back when dumbed down college standards and degrees became the universal norm those that really aren’t that bright have now become falsely self-empowered to think they are bright. Just examining the cast of characters in the MSM and so many of today’s politicians proves his point.
Geeez, i am one of teh most socially and fiscally conservative people you could ever meet and I think George W. Bush is an abomination. He is letting his nation be overrun by millions of illegal Mexicans while doing nohing to dissuade the states and municipalities from giving them free housing, education, health care and welfare cheques – not to mention college tuition discounts and driver’s licences. The only good thing Bush has done is to kick Islamist ass. (Except for Osama, of course, who he forgot about in order to settle daddies old score with that swarthy hanged guy. What was his name again? Whatever his name was you can bet he wasn’t a Saudi sheik. If he was he’d be puffing on a Cuban with George Sr rather than conversing with the maggots. G.W.B. is a despicable man.
Great link on this:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/11/lets-discuss-bush-derangement-syndrome.html
“The psychology of some of the Bush Haters is pretty cut and dried. They hate Bush because he stands between them and the implementation of their collectivist “utopian” vision. I have no time to waste on them, except to note that their intentions are deliberately and decidedly malevolent toward this country. They want it to fail at anything and everything it does and they openly cheer for the barbarians at the gate.”
. . .
“What makes Bush Hatred completely insane however, is the almost delusional degree of unremitting certitude of Bush’s evil; while simultaneously believing that the TRUE perpetrators of evil in the world are somehow good and decent human beings with the world’s intersts at heart.
This psychological defense mechanism is referred to as “displacement”.
One way you can usually tell that an individual is using displacement is that the emotion being displaced (e.g., anger) is all out of proportion to the reality of the situation. The purpose of displacement is to avoid having to cope with the actual reality.”
. . .
“What is most funny is that these psychologically naiive individuals simultaneously think of Bush as this “criminal mastermind”–a genius of evil; and also as a complete moron who isn’t capable of uttering a sentence without making a hash of it; or that his brain is controlled by the equally evil Karl Rove.
The cognitive dissonance required to have all these contradictory beliefs swirling around in one’s brain is astonishing. But besides the primary function it serves to erase from consciousness what is happening in the world today, it is serving a secondary purpose–it makes them feel in control of what might come.
They can predict with the complete accuracy of the delusional mind that whatever happens–whatever horror is unleased by Al Qaeda or Hamas or Islamic Jihad–was caused by President Bush’s actions/inactions/intentions (take your pick).
They can conduct a brave protest march against the evil Bush…but clearly they don’t dare protest real terror or terrorist acts the way that the Jordanians or the Lebanese did, for example. ”
. . .
“As long as they focus all their energy on hating Bush and act like the whiny petulant and angry child, who expects daddy to instantaneously make everything better– or else they won’t like it; then they don’t ever have to act like mature adults and cope with reality in a mature fashion. It is soooo much easier to blame everything on daddy.”
While GWB has his flaws – as we all do – and he arguably has made mistakes on the domestic front, esp. in not using his veto in his first term.
But:
1. there have been no attacks on american soil since 911 – over six years now.
2. Iraq looks to be turning – he is the longest war-time president in history BTW.
3. And while fighting that war, has managed to cut taxes and maintain a recession-free economy throughout.
4. 2 of the 3 axis of evil look to have been nullified.
AND does anyone reading this think that Al Gore would have done better? I think he would have been Carter redux or even worse than him.
I loved him till he wore Crocs. ‘Nuff said.
RG
If you’ve followed the link and read the WSJ article you will see that it’s not at all about GWB, but about political discourse and how so-called “progressives” have discarded civility and intellectual debate over sheer emotional hatred.
Right?
While I think George could have done better at shrinking the government and reducing the tax burden on Americans, at the time he was the only guy on offer with any intentions of cutting taxes at all. He’s also the only guy who was on offer back in 2000 with the stones to do war on the Islamofascists and stick to it.
Imagine the USA today with President Algore running it back in 2001. Better? I think not.
However, I absolutely LOVE Bush Derangement Syndrome. All the DemocRats are focused on is hating Bush, discrediting Bush, beating Bush.
This is so much the case that going into a Presidential election year, Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats have like a 10% approval rating. Harry Reid’s Senate Democrats are about the same. They have focused all their attention on beating anything George Bush suggests, and pissed off all their donors and supporters in the process.
But Bush is not going to be on the ballot! This is GREAT! Almost as big a gift to Conservatives as Stephane Dion. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. ~:D
And why do I need to “explain” or “justify” Mr. Bush? He happens to be better, IMNSHO, than any of his challengers for the job. That’s why I voted for him.
Not hard to understand, unless you think John Kerry or Al Bore would have been the knight in shining armor that saved the republic from those dastardly neo-cons…
And if you do, well, go vote for ’em. I don’t care. Why you gotta get all up in my grill about MY choices?
Saw Mitt Romney on a half-hour segment off Glenn Beck last night.
If I were American, I would seriously consider voting for him if for no other reason than he would drive the secular progressives nuts.
Beck, BTW, has disclosed he grew up a life-long Democrat but does not recognize the party of his youth, which has been hijacked by … whatever.
Sounds just certain religious dominations, which are becoming irrelevant not because they promote traditional values, but for the fact they are trying to modernize.
Much of the Bush-haters are part off the marxist/Hollywood power axis, which would like to see the US become the Democratic Republic of America, in much the same way many marxist states in Europe and Asia are called Democratic Republic of … whatever.
I’d like to congratulate the voters of Saskatchewan, who tossed out their cousins, the Fabian Socialists.
The owner of the Crocs empire is a staunch Republican (can’t recall his name at the moment). That’s why I go out of my way to buy Crocs for my kids, rather than knock-offs.
The best part?
On the internet, “Bush” rhymes with “Rush”.
Man… did you just feel the hair go up on the back of your neck like I did?
sorry for the paraphrasing as follows…..
I was watching The View this morning, and they were discussing how a woman asked John McCain how they were going to take care of that Bitch – meaning Hillary Clinton – and the demorats are all up in arms that John McCain did not stand up for Hillary to this woman. Joy Behar said that John McCain, being a man, should have stood up to that woman and said that Hillary was his opponent and that she shouldn’t say such things. The other little, buxom black woman on the panel of The View – can’t remember her name – told Joy Behar that she calls people Bitches and says bad things about Bush all the time, so what is the difference. Joy said the difference is I don’t like Bush.
So there you have it!
I don’t hate Bush…I just don’t trust him and never warmed up to him as a real conservative….he displays abysmally poor economic and domestic policy judgement and obviously has allowed a bunch of real statist nuts run the government and chose his policies for him.
The fact that these statist policy mongers can jump ship to Hillary after Bush and GOP took the heat for implementing their nutty “empire” policies is telling….leading the charge to Hillary is neo-con propagandist Rupert Murdoch…obviously they see Hitlery as neo-con light…which tells us a whole lot about the real core nature of neo-con ideology…and it sure as hell isn’t a conservative republicanism.
The owner of the Crocs empire is a staunch Republican
Charlotte, is it Ron Snyder? He’s the CEO.
I love my Crocs.
Today I learned there “Is no spell check in the rubber room.” The world now makes sense. I’ll put my Crocs on now and take a long walk in the snow.
BWAHAHAHAAAHAHAAA!!!!
I too, am a conservative who doesn’t care much for Bush. I think the Iraq War has been an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from the war we really need to be fighting, namely the War on Al Qaeda and its Saudi benefactors. How much better off would Afghanistan be today if Bush hadn’t gone on a personal crusade against his father’s old nemesis? How many fewer casualties would we have sustained if even half the troops currently serving in Iraq were deployed in Afghanistan instead?
“I too, am a conservative who doesn’t care much for Bush. I think the Iraq War has been an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from the war we really need to be fighting, namely the War on Al Qaeda and its Saudi benefactors. How much better off would Afghanistan be today if Bush hadn’t gone on a personal crusade against his father’s old nemesis? How many fewer casualties would we have sustained if even half the troops currently serving in Iraq were deployed in Afghanistan instead?”
I have to disagree. GWB’s most brilliant strategic move has been the invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately he sold that war on false pretenses (WMDs, democracy, fighting terrorsim, etc); he would have been much better off stating clearly why he went to war.
You all have heard the term Peak Oil. This is the time when oil production (not reserves) cannot increase anymore, and starts decreasing. Although there is still lots of oil in the world, it is harder to extract – witness Alberta Tar sands. Some say we’re at Peak now – production has been flat for the last 2 years in spite of massive drilling and investments worldwide. IMHO it’s too early to tell; but most independent analysts agree we’ll be there before 2020.
Meanwhile, flat production, combined with increased demand, has driven the price to nearly 100$ a barrel.
If you’re not familiar with the Peak Oil concept, you can be sure Bush and Cheney are, and have been for a long time. Both have worked in the oil industry.
[An aside: to those tempted to say Peak Oil is a hoax, like AGW, I say it is a historical fact. Oil production peaked in US in 1970, and it has also peaked in dozens of other countries.]
The US needs to import more than 13 million barrels of oil every day, and most exporters tend to be places held by madmen (Venezuela, Iran, formerly Iraq) or run by state-owned companies that may lack competence (Russia, Mexico). You can’t rely on them. With Iraq, Bush/Cheney plan to return oil production to companies with the know-how and profit motive to do it effectively.
Iraq is one of the few places left where oil production can be increased significantly, at relatively low cost (Canada is another, but not low cost at all). It sits on some 125 billion barrels of sweet crude. With a pacified country, and proper investment, 6-7 million bpd production is possible. Add to that Canada, and some conservation measures, and the US will be well-supplied for a few more decades while the rest of the world fights over diminishing resources and devolve into energy crises (Russia will be the exception, they have huge reserves and the means to defend them).
This is a game of Survivor, folks. The Last Man Standing. Bush understands that. And he plays to win.
Had Bush explained those things simply and clearly for what they are, he would have shut up all the liberals once and for all. Liberals are the main beneficiaries of the American Way of Life. With no oil, it’s gone. If they don’t approve of GWB’s plans, they’re welcome to be the first to go live off-grid on a farm and give up AC, the car and air travel. Otherwise, they should just shut the &%@ up.
“the US will be well-supplied for a few more decades while the rest of the world fights over diminishing resources”
I’ve always thought it was partially about oil strategy and i had no problem with that. Too bad a great percentage of the public doesn’t want accept or understand that oil is a life and death issue.
I find that hatred, obsessive hatred, is a common motivating factor among all the leftist groups and movements. Whatever the group or movement just observe their behaviour and you will see violence and hatred like never before.
Yes, in the case of President Bush it is even pathological, but I am not sure it is worse than it was for M. Thatcher or R. Reagan. Due to the Islamic attack on his watch, he was forced to deal with issues further afield, which may explain his “popularity” with the Left.
I agree with others here who expressed disappointment in the betrayal of conservatism by President Bush in regards to spending. I was also disappointed in the refusal to identify the enemy in this law and insist on Islam being a religion of peace. However we should be thankful the attack of 9/11 happened on his watch and not on Clinton’s or Carter’s, etc.
GreenNeck, I am well-aware of Peak Oil (I’m a Calgary-based geologist, ’nuff said) and I am sure we are pretty much already there. If that was Bush’s motivation for the Iraq war, it was ill-considered. Oil production requires lots of infrastructure, pipelines, wells, roads, etc. These things are vulnerable to disruption. Saddam Hussein had all those things. They were antiquated and poorly-maintained due to the UN sanctions, but they were functional and Iraq was producing a significant amount of oil. Now, the Iraqi infrastructure is in shambles and will likely remain so for the forseeable future. Furthermore, once Iraq does stabilize, it will probably be a puppet of Iran, making Iraqi oil as inaccessible to the US as it was under Hussein.
@GreenNeck:
The Peak Oil theory strikes me as a mythologization of the red and green tape that’s been choking off new exploration and development in North America. Until recently, analagous stats could have been used to promulgate a “Peak Nuclear” theory – except it wouldn’t have been believed because the lefties have been more openly hostile towards nuclear power than to oil exploration and development. Instead, the “nuclear lobby” – largely consisting of professional nuclear engineers who took the anti-nuke-power Left as an affront to their field – told it like it was, repeatedly.
WL Mackenzie Redux and RM, both of your views are rationally offered, but, the point is that you can’t even have a dialogue with the rabid BDS’s folks without listening to an emotionally incoherent rant and being spittle covered.
Bush has been a big disappointment to fiscal conservatives like myself. None us appreciated more money thrown down the public schools’ rat hole or more entitlements to middle class Medicare recipients with his prescription drug plan when Social Security needs overhauled( although congress nixed that). But, he did get some conservative judges on the courts who will not legislate from the bench, a big abuse by Dem appointed “activist” judges.
I supported his vision and actions on the WOT. It’s getting too tiresome to even debate that anymore. I think it is interesting that the newly elected of the big players in Europe are reapproaching Bush. They could easily ignore him and his policies as a lameduck. I think the European mindframe is changing, how could it not with Iran looming, Putin playing hardball and their precarious demographics. I wouldn’t write off Iraq as Bush’s Waterloo just yet. I think that Europeans are reassessing Iraq too.
Call the whitecoats. Use the tasers.
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Lebanese Leader Pledges Cash to Straighten Rice’s Teeth, Institutionalize Bush
“They are welcome to all the money I have in America. Rice should take half of it to improve the way she looks. She should have her teeth straightened and her face fixed, and should make herself look nice. I donate what is left to George Bush, because I know he will soon be admitted to a mental asylum because of his policies,” former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab said.
This man is by now three-quarters crazy, and within six or seven months, he will be completely crazy. When he completes his term in office, this man, who is so infatuated with ruling, with destroying the world, with killing, and with attacking people, will undoubtedly end up in a lunatic asylum. The American ambassador here does not need my donation, because he gets hefty bribes. That’s right. He gets hefty bribes. I call upon his government, if it wants to maintain its credibility, to search his accounts, and to examine all the presents he will be taking with him to the U.S., because these will be very generous, I am told. …-
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1606.htm
(via free republic)
Regarding the criticism of Bush in this thread: the combination of his almost-vetoless Presidency, and the ratchet-up in government spending and deficits, does suggest that the “motor of deficits” has been Congress. Something to mull over.
Whoa. Wrong thread, I’m sorry.
Maybe someday people here will realize you don’t have to be a lefty retard to despise Bush.
After all,he is a typically dishonest,manipulative,sleazy son-of-a-bitch politician.
Joanne … “So there you have it!”
The problem with watching trash like The View is you will never get the story… any story … straight!
McCain Defends Hillary on principle …. the leftstream media ignores it!
Where do you think those dummies on that TV show get their information?
There are two kind of people who support Bush…
ONE: Those who understand that neo cons have a callous disregard for human life and that they primarily serve their own interests which correlate with those of the rich middle class.
TWO: Those who delude themselves into thinking that neo cons are altrusic beings out to defeat evil and spread goodwill.
I have had many fruitful conversations with the former based around the premise; we must secure our own wealth to the detriment of others.
However, to the latter deluded beings who believe Bush’s policy is altruisic to the majority in the world… there is little point in talking to you. Either admit that you are selfishly concerned with your own wellbeing to the death and detriment of others or wallow in your own delusion.
I would welcome any discussion on this.
No doubt you would. What’s “altruisic”?
Gord Tulk: “3. And while fighting that war, has managed to cut taxes and maintain a recession-free economy throughout.”
Um, have you checked out the value of the US dollar recently? Since Bush took over, it’s lost about 50% of its value when compared to C$, almost 100% against the euro, and about 20% for the yen. Bush has created a “stealth recession”; Americans benefit because China and other Asian countries tied their currencies to the dollar, and so those prices haven’t risen, while European and Canadian manufacturers find they can’t raise prices because the US market is too important to them.
But Americans suddenly find they can’t afford to travel outside the country; their world has shrunk considerably. Clinton was in Niagara-On-The-Lake earlier this week, and he joked that he might have to take out a loan to afford his hotel room. When the sub-prime credit problems created by “Easy Al” Greenspan explode next year – some 60% of ARM’s are going to reset next year – that recession is going to hit home in a big way.
Please note that the US government plays fast and loose with economic statistics; they don’t bother to publish M3 figures anymore, and their inflation figures are a joke, as they conveniently dismiss rising health care costs, rising food costs (hello ethanol!), and rising energy costs. The Fed boasted about 3.9% growth in the last year, but if you factor in these increased costs (which they don’t), the US is probably in recession already.
I’m not a Bush hater, but I’m not a fan-boi either. He’s done some good things, and he’s made some mistakes. But you can’t run a country with $800 billion in current account deficit, and nearly $700 billion in trade deficits forever. That sinking US dollar should be your first clue.
And here’s a second one, free of charge – if you own any US common stocks that aren’t in oil or gold, get rid of them. You’ll be able to buy them back next year at much better prices.
I didn’t have time to read all the posts; but, I think and have always thought that history will redeem Bush.
As Jack said “You can’t handle the truth”
In this case the American public( & the rest of the world for that matter) is YOU.
The way I see is the objective has always been Iran. If you look at war like chess, the chess master Bush has moved his pieces into position to go for the jugular. Iran will get no warning when Thompson(thats right I said Thompson)brings the pain.
This end game and the fact that oil IS crucial to national security are much too big a pill to swallow for most of the population.
Remember this, the Americans will be the only thing standing between Isreal and Iran.
johnny miller
we were discussing retarded lefties and look wot falls out of the tree looking for the BUSH
I was out for dinner last night when the guy at the next table asked me a perfectly innocent question, “what do I think the outlook is for the American economy over the next 5 years?” I indicated that I thought the fundamentals were in place for a continued economic expansion if the Democrats did not mess up by overturning the Bush tax cuts. Who knew he would turn into a flaming BDS case. He started by telling me what a crappy job he had done and how he could not speak english. I asked him what exactly Bush had done or not done to base this opinion on. I kid you not, this is what he indicated. Bush was responsible for not letting the world access the extra terrestial’s energy grid. By not allowing this, Bush had doomed the world. My wife and I slowly left with our backs to the wall. And to think this was a perfectly nice place with great French food. Oh well.
The left is vitriolic about Bush in proportion to how stung they felt by the Clinton scandals and Clinton impeachment.
Bill Clinton was surrounded by enormous scandals and perpetual wrongdoing, including the entire Monika Lewisky episode.
This would have all been fine if Republicans across the country had not been outraged, finally leading to the impeachment of a Democratic president.
The left was humiliatied and embarassed by this visible wound, that Republicans were so impertinent to emphasize by high visibility and excoriating rhetoric.
The left simply could not allow their vulnerability to be so immodestly paraded before the world. They could not let their humiliation and loss of face stand.
They chose to obfuscate by creating a huge and unquenchable backlash and fury designed to make the Republican president seem worse in a more notable way than the Clinton infractions ever were.
Naturally the rank and file leftists were only following the drumbeat of Democratic spinmeisters who tried to hide their own dark stain with blind fury.
I was one of those broken-glass Republicans, and my views of Bush are similar to Penny’s and others on this thread. I like him on the war, the tax cuts, and the judges, and dislike him on the border and big government.
One of his big mistakes was neglecting to fire all of the department heads and assistant (and assistant to assistant) department heads in the State Department.
The bureaucracy was laden with Democrats and Clinton loyalists who have done everything in their power to aid their fellow travellers in the press at trying to sabotage Bush’s policies.
One time after Powell spotted Kerry bumper stickers in the parking lot, he reminded people at a briefing that Bush had the highest popular vote of any president in history, and it was time for everyone to get on board.
One woman marched back to her office, gathered her staff, closed the door, and reminded them that Kerry had the second-most popular votes for a presidential candidate in American history, and they didn’t owe this President anything.
It was a shame, but this kind of reaction was not at all uncommon, and not firing them has been one of his biggest mistkes.
As a Canadian talking to a loyal US bush suporter
I could not understnd the mindset.
1st comment was on the war or terrorism, I’snt he doing a good job, and the best man suited to for this job.
-Well i said, he attacked Iraq, a country that didn’t support terrerism, as Sadam couldn’t trust the radicals, leaving a whole flank wide open called Afganastan.
-He’s done nothing to secure the borders, in fact done every thing possible to keep the border with mexico wide open, this included arresting border gaurds doing thier job.
-lied to the people about weapons of mass destruction. This can only be conscrued as an attemp on a hidden agenda.
-running massive deficits
Dont you get news in Canada, they found weapons of mas destruction in Iraq. Also bush’s tax cuts has really improved the economy, and lowerd the debt. You cant even get health care in Canada. I watched a program on how a guy waited 8 months to get a broken arm fixed.
I think Americans are nothing more then sheap’le, watching fox news, ra, ra, go Army go.
Peter
Well, here in Canada, I like to call it SHDS. Having been on the receiving end of more than one insane rant regarding the mental state of our fine prime minister, I can attest to the fact that there is an epidemic of the mental illness in Ontario. I have actually had arguments with moonbat idiots who claim that PMSH sent Canadian troops to Iraq. Upon correcting them, they then proceed to start yelling and screaming about how evil I/PMSH/CPC is.
I have always had a healthy dislike for libranos and dippers, but I can honestly say that I have never hated any of them. These people have a mental disorder, and it does a disservice to the political discourse in this country.
Peter: “Bush’s tax cuts has really (sic) improved the economy, and lowerd (sic) the debt.”
Lowered the debt?! What are you smoking? When Bush II took office, the US national debt was 6 trillion; now it’s 9 trillion. That means in 6+ years, Bush has added 50% to the US debt; or half as much as all other presidents combined in over 220 years. Also, you might note that the US national debt was about 1 trillion when Reagan took office; by the time Bush I was out of office, it was 4 trillion. So Republicans in the last 27 years have contributed 6 trillion of the 9 trillion total. The last 3 Republican presidents preached fiscal responsibility, and then spent like drunken sailors when they got in office. And that simile might not be fair to the sailors.
Honestly, Kate, there are some very smart people who post here, but there are also complete economic idiots who can’t even take a few seconds to check their figures. I will congratulate Peter on his innovative spelling and syntax, however.
doug, right. kingstonlad, right.
As far as “intellectuals” go – they can be described either as people educated beyond their intelligence, or as people who attempt to use their brains but aren’t very good at it.
As far as BDS and SHDS go, it is profoundly unintellectual to hate a politician. The successful ones may be people that one wouldn’t care to know personally, but they can’t do anything unless a great many people go along with them. Someone who foams at the mouth about careful, staid, do-little Stephen Harper is truly deranged. As for those who are well advanced in BDS, their punishment is waiting – Hillary!