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Posted on 05/30/2007 4:23:07 AM PDT by Chuckmorse
I’m driving my 8-year-old daughter home from school along with some of her fellow students and I hear giggling in the back seat. Asking to be let in on the joke, a young girl blurts out a vulgar and ugly little ditty about President Bush, the type of limerick that might have been told by a Nazi child about a Jew back in the 1930’s. This is not the first time I’ve heard a little child spew hateful trash about the President. The impressionable child no doubt picked this little gem up at the breakfast table of her good liberal parents.
What drives this hatred that causes otherwise enlightened liberals to fill the minds of their young children with such disrespect and contempt for the President of the United States? I’ve asked this question many times of liberal friends, family members, and associates and I have yet to get a coherent and rational answer from any of them. What exactly is driving this?
Certainly it couldn’t be the war in Iraq. President Bush initiated the war to enforce United Nations sanctions that were being ignored by Saddam Hussein, an infamous dictator and a notorious human rights abuser. Liberals revere the United Nations, claim to abhor human rights abuse, and have from time to time called for American military intervention to deal with intolerable situations of suffering and oppression in the world. Bush went into Iraq softly and with a minimum of loss of innocent life. A more conservative approach, one that I would’ve supported, would’ve been a strategy of swift and total military victory against the enemy.
Bush proceeded to turn oil revenues over to the new Iraqi government and to preside over democratic elections. The American show of force in Iraq contributed to a decision by Libya to suspend its nuclear program. I thought the stemming of nuclear proliferation was a devoutly held liberal goal. While continuing with a soft approach in Iraq, Bush has aided the new democratic government, the first ever in the region, in its difficult fight against religious fanatics. For a liberal, what’s not to like?
Certainly liberals couldn’t accuse the Bush administration of cutting the size of the government or of cutting any government programs. In seven years the President has still failed to veto a single pork-barrel spending bill submitted by Congress. Under the Bush administration, the government has continued to expand, always a liberal goal. The Bush administration has increased spending on education more than any administration in history through the “no child left behind” act endorsed by Senator Ted Kennedy. If there is one thing liberals love, its big and expensive government.
Could liberals be upset about the immigration policy of the Bush administration? The President has demonstrated a complete lack of will when it comes to controlling the border with Mexico and stopping the massive flow of illegal aliens. Building a fence along that border would be an obvious and cost-effective solution yet nothing has been done by this administration in this regard. The worker-visa program, as advocated by Bush, could’ve been taken word for word right out of the liberal playbook.
Yet liberals continue to wallow in this inexplicable hatred. I would suggest that liberals hate Bush more for what he represents than for who he actually is which is a centrist who governs slightly to the right of center. Perhaps liberals would prefer a President who both espouses liberal ideas and governs liberally. I shudder to think of how such a President would approach the war in Iraq, the budget, the growth of government programs, and the influx of illegal aliens. While Bush has not governed as conservatively as I would prefer, at least his liberal tendancies are tempered with a few conservative convictions. The answer to the question “why do liberals hate Bush” is one that I will continue to pose to liberals and I’m sure I will continue to hear a lot of double talk and non-answers.
Maybe because Bush, just like their out of power, elites simply have forgotten about the American people and couldn’t care less about us.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
These are people who hate themselves as well. You can’t expect them to be any more charitable to others.
Very complicated way of saying liberals hate anything/anyone with any goodness or rightness in it/them.
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When Hillary is elected and the Congress is solid Democrats, they will reap the fruits of their folly. Unfortunately, we will become France (which is their role model, for some odd reason).
1) Economic changes (higher taxes, increased labor union powers, etc) that choke the economy
2) Increased regulations on business
3) Socialized medicine leading everyone but the top 10% to suffer.
The Dems always adopt child-like changes in a complex world, because they “feel good.” Republicans are the mean, Hitler-like characters because they don’t give everyone a free ride. With good reason.
If we’re ever cursed with another President Clinton I’m sure turnabout will be fair play.
Hes a republican. Thats all they need.
That's easy - because he isn't a Democrat. What's harder is why conservatives (except for the neocon armchair warriors and the betweeter who have bought into the "war on _______" whatever drugs, poverty, terror) despise him. Without even getting into things like gun control and amnesty, I'll give you three hints (SPEND SPEND SPEND)
Uh, what conservative convictions?
Libs hate Bush because hatred is their their irrational religion. They don’t even see that he is one of them. He’s in charge and has beaten them all around the block in because of the faithful yet irrational support he received from GOP leadership who put him in place because they thought “he could win”. Conservative principle be darned.
When you see the vitriol that was spewed after Falwell’s death, you realize that “hate” is a very real part of the liberal’s mindset toward certain conservative issues (Falwell was best known for his pro-life, pro-family stands.) Bush may not be the embodiment of a “conservative”...but he speaks out against the evil of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and is pro-family, and I think that is what elicits much of the hate.
I agree 100%.
It’s all about abortion.
I have a liberal acquaintance - if I want to see her turn red in the face, get tears in her eyes & spitting mad - all I have to do is talk about how abortion is wrong. She loses it everytime, it’s her number one issue.
Bush is against abortion.
Last night's Law and Order was about a serial killer. The killer turned out to be a big-government-fearing, religious, gun and flag-toting survivalist; this is their nightmare, yet, in reality they have more to fear from sociopaths created by liberal "education".
I believe liberal socialists hate Bush because they simply don’t like an obvious capitalist in the White House. Even worse, a capitalist that seems willing to act unilaterally in America’s best interest (as he understands it). That violates their desire for the US to be folded into their vision of a world socialist utopia. Additionally, they distrust the corporation culture that springs from a strong capitalist system, and believe that just as that same system selfishly exploits the world’s resources and remains preeminent on the backs of workers, it stole their Gore election victory in Florida. I don’t think it’s Bush, per say. He’s simply the face of what bothers them.
With all due respect, Mr. Morse, you're starting with a false premise here. These people are some of the biggest fools of the millenium (and the last millenium as well). Unless you meant it as sarcasm and I wasn't sharp enough to pick that up.
Liberals hate bush because he’s killing terrorists. Also, because he’s from Texas.
Conservatives like me arent happy with Bush either. This hard core Republican wouldnt vote for him again. I wont vote Democrat, but I wont vote for any Republican who carries his stinking, rancid immigration bill either.
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