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Posted on 08/11/2004 10:00:10 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Another Swing Vote: the Sufferers of Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome
Do you suffer from Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome?
It's easy to diagnose. It often strikes at a bookstore. You walk in looking for a breezy summer read, and piled near the door are stacks and stacks of angry tomes about the perfidy of Usurper Bush.
He's a tool of big oil, small minds. He's a scarily devout Jesus-freak Christian AND the dupe of Saudi Wahhabist puppetmasters. He led the country to war on bizarre and fabricated assumptions -- sure, Clinton made Iraqi regime change standard American policy, but that was just a scarecrow to stick in the field. Plus, George W. Bush is Satan! Just look at the cover of Jim Hightower's book, where the author draws devil horns and scribbles a mustache and goatee on a Bush poster. Bush isn't just wrong. He's bad. Super-extra evil. Get it? GET IT? Oh, and buy this book.
You decline the opportunity. You wander over to periodicals and flip open the current Esquire. There's a story on stem cell research. The author's subtitle: "How the president is trying to kill my daughter."
Yes, of course, you think. (How weary your inner voice sounds.) That's precisely what he is trying to do. That is the president's specific objective in life: Kill sick people. It makes him happy. Every night he puts his cloven hooves up on the desk and thinks of the people he's offed today. Ahh. Life is good.
You put the magazine away. The bookstore almost feels like enemy territory, or perhaps the embassy of some neutral but vaguely brackish nation. Do you belong? You don't hate Bush. You may not love him, but your marrow doesn't bubble at the thought of his name.
Do you feel somewhat estranged when you enter a bookstore? Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome.
Of course, not everyone hates Bush.
One can understand why Southerners like him, since they're all two-toothed crackers with gun racks and Klan sheets neatly folded in the trunk in case they drive by a good ol' fashioned flaming cross. Right?
It's harder to understand why putatively normal people like him. These creatures are frankly incomprehensible to any right-thinking person. Maybe they're just so full of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh they don't understand that their drinking water is now composed ENTIRELY of arsenic, or that we have completely squandered the goodwill of several hundred chain-smoking French intellectuals.
But ponder for a moment those who neither love Bush nor loathe him. Consider how that stack of anti-Bush books looks to them, how tired they feel when Will Smith pops up in the German press insisting that Bush lied. How weary they feel when Bruce Springsteen -- the Boss! -- joins a musical caravan to cross the nation and warn against the looming horror of another Bush term. "Gee, Bruce can both sing and strum a guitar. He must know something I don't."
It's hard to tell how SBHFS will affect the vote. This group could go either way.
They could so weary of the incessant hysteria that they'll be willing to reward the frothers, if only to shut them up. If I vote for John Kerry, will you be happy? Will that do it?
The answer would be Yes! That'll do it!
Well, that, and nationalized health care, tax hikes on small businesses, the Kyoto treaty, fealty to the United Nations, shipping nuclear fuel to the Iranians to make them act nice, leaving Iraq ASAP and ushering in what Kerry calls a more "sensitive" war on terrorism. (We will use marshmallow bullets, perhaps.) All that plus vast federally funded embryo farms, and they'll be happy. For a while. Then we'll have to do something about that "In God We Trust" nonsense on the coins.
On the other hand, SBHFS sufferers might hope that a vote for Bush would cap the geyser for good. His foes have said all they can say; could they possibly hate him any more?
Of course they could. If Bush takes out Iranian nuclear bomb facilities before the election, it'll be good for another 50 books. Now do you see how evil he is? First Iraq, then Iran -- good Lord, is no one safe?
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Especially Barnes & Noble, eh?
I loooooooooove Van Morrison......... oh and a bump to this post
I went into a B & N about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and purchased the following books:
Ann Coulter - Slander
Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - Jason Clarke/David Hardy
Liberwocky - What Liberals Say and What They Really Mean - Victor Gold
The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry - Steven F. Hayward
The checkout guy looked at me as if I were Adolf Hitler, I swear he was actually FRIGHTENED of me...
Our local Barnes & Nobel has a huge table right as you walk in the door with absolutely perfect stacks of Bush Bash Books presented in a 360 degree panoramic style. An attendant is assigned to keep it neat and tidy. They don't want anyone defacing their efforts by making a mess of it, like all those liberal books my kids turn backwards on the shelves.
"If I vote for John Kerry, will you be happy? Will that do it?"
The scariest aspect of a Kerry presidency is what the media did during the Clinton years. All bad news was either blacked out, or blamed on the Republicans or some low level bureaucrat. Nothing bad ever happened or, if it did, it was someone else's doing. No amount of evil or scandal was ever laid at the Clintons' doorstep by the mainstream media, and remember, this was a presidency rife with allegations of rape, sexual harassment, missing evidence, financial impropriety, domestic violence, infidelity, incompetence, abuse of law enforcement, selective tax audits, witness intimidation, death by gunshot and a mysterious plane crash. When the 'watchdog' press becomes a guard dog, the absolute corruption of absolute power threatens our democracy in a way no external enemy can.
Esquire. There's a story on stem cell research. The author's subtitle: "How the president is trying to kill my daughter."My subtitle for Esquire: Trying to get Craig Kilborn to mention US on the air instead of Maxim.
Indeed! I really couldn't believe that they would alter that cover.
I do that too. LOL!
LOL.....I bought "Useful Idiots" by Mona Charen and "Treason" by Ann Coulter last year at Atlantic Books in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware....the clerk bagging them picked them up as though he were handling dog waste....the 2-fingered grip, holding it as far away from his body as possible....I laughed like hell at him and he glared at me....
Thing is, if Kerry wins this stuff is going to have the shelf life of a mayfly. If he loses it's good for another four years' sales. Guess which case they're really rooting for?
I like to go into City Lights, a big lefty bookstore in SF, and ask for the Ayn Rand section.
Isn't altering a cover against the law? The propaganda has reached to the lowest levels. I had a tenant tell me this morning that Bush is making millions for himself from Irac oil! I couldn't believe my ears! I said prove it! He ranted on and on, I just shut him off.This is serious business. We must hang fast exposing Kerry.
I love to go down to the library and gauge the reaction from the people who check out the books for me when I bring them an Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham tome. Laura is somewhat under the radar as she isn't on the local talk stations, but they know about Ann. One of them actually sneered when I went to check out Bernard Goldberg's "Bias". LOL!
I bought "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man" the other day at our Barnes and Nobles store here, and when I put the book on the counter in front of the college-age girl clerk, she just glanced at it quickly and started chatting with me about Moore and how she couldn't wait to go see his movie, etc. Apparently, since the cover has a picture of Moore on it, she assumed it was one of his books. I went along with the chat for a bit, because she was cute, without pointing out what the book was really about. Just as she was handing me the book, I think she finally realized what it was and suddenly she looked very uneasy and confused, and got real quiet. Hahahaha.
"Politics tends to suck up sanity worse than baby pictures"... too true!
I used to turn liberal books upside down and backwards. Now I replace them with Bush books (always located on a lesser shelf).
I was at a local B&N this weekend and in the section where the employees put their picks one guy had chosen an anti-Bush book. I was disgusted until I looked further down and found one guy that had as his favorite an anti-lib book. Wish I could remember which 2 books they were but I did take some solace that they are not all socialists there. I am not sure if the employees wear name tags but next time I go in I will check it out and make sure I give the anti-lib guy an encouraging word--that is unless he has been fired.
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