Posted on 11/14/2007 2:13:23 AM PST by Aristotelian
Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred, LBJ hatred, FDR hatred, Lincoln hatred, and John Adams hatred, to mention only the more extravagant hatreds that we Americans have conceived for our presidents.
But Bush hatred is different. 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. . . .
Bush hatred is not a rational response to actual Bush perfidy. Rather, Bush hatred compels its progressive victims--who pride themselves on their sophistication and sensitivity to nuance--to reduce complicated events and multilayered issues to simple matters of good and evil. Like all hatred in politics, Bush hatred blinds to the other sides of the argument, and constrains the hater to see a monster instead of a political opponent. . . .
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A lot of facts bother me. How can a man be Secretary of Defense for seven months and not even have a grip on actual readiness? The same man who fathered the Carter Hollow Military perhaps? Facts! Carters military was hollow when he took over as CIC now who was Ford's Sec of Defense anyway? I don't like liberals as elected leaders. I don't care what party letter they have after their name either. If you want to call it hate fine by me. I'm tired of the same names making the same mistakes. Ford the fist was Gerald R Ford. Ford the second was Poppy Bush. Ford the third is GW Bush. Understand me now?
“Was it wrong for the US to go to war with GERMANY after JAPAN attacked us at Pearl Harbor?”
Uh, didn’t we declare war on Japan, and the Germany declared war on us?
Hillary hatred? No.
Common sense and ideological disagreement, yes.
Hillary would be a sisater for the USA, and that is a fact.
When we were attacked at Pearl Harbor did we declare war on Spain? Saddam had no army as such. We owned his skies as well. Name me the Iraqi 9/11 attacker. I wasn't against removal of Saddam. But it should not have taken deploying the U.S. military for 5 years to do it. That is what we have Intel and Special Ops for. Oh I forgot Gerald R Ford said that was a No No.
“Hillary hatred? No.
Common sense and ideological disagreement, yes.
Hillary would be a sisater for the USA, and that is a fact.”
That’s the same thing my liberal acquaintances say about GWB
So I suppose it depends on what your definition of hatred is.
Most certainly, Dem/lib politics is emotive, not rationally based.
Hillary is a much bigger threat than her husband could have ever dreamed of but some can not grasp why that is so. It is because of the GOP. Hillary will love using all the new Executive Branch Powers the GOP congress gave Bush. The GOP is the Stupid Party. Hillary will say to the GOP congress thank you for being useful idiots to my cause.
“Hillary will love using all the new Executive Branch Powers the GOP congress gave Bush. “
I was disappointed that the GOP led congress passed the Patriot Act for this very reason. Of course at the time it wasn’t popular to say anything that could be construed as being anti-Bush. I did get called a lot of names, but I wonder
if the people who did the name calling still think it was a good idea, with Hillary as the frontrunner.
Here’s one author’s analysis of BDS. It’s a hatred for middle America and the ‘gall’ they had to elect someone who wasn’t a 60’s style radical:
http://www.talkaboutgovernment.com/group/alt.politics.usa/messages/623416.html
bttt all your posts
“It’s the media, stupid.”
(not you Aristotle)
It’s called “group think” and their ain’t nothing intellectual about it.
Yep, it was Texas that put him over. See: LBJ “Landslide Lyndon” and how he perfected the cemetary vote as a congressman.
Just wait till she or someone as bad picks their Head of Department of Homeland Security. This is where blind party loyalty and straight party ticket voting without consideration as to qualifications and policies are a huge disservice to the nation. No party is above tyranny nor any elected official. People dislike Bill Clinton and all he did as POTUS. Yet no one mentions Slick Willie had a GOP majority in both houses which should have as our founders intended stopped him. Being politicians rather than leaders has cost the GOP dearly in reputation and it cost them their majority status as well.
GW Bush could have been far greater than Reagan had he tried. Reagan got his agenda's past a DEM majority. Yet Bush wasted his time doing the DEMs work for them that indeed angers me. Ted Kennedy has had a dream come true. He certainly did not get all he wanted but he got far more than Reagan would have ever given him that's for sure.
If Hillary gets elected or a liberal RINO it will be because as a nation we get the government we deserve as a nation. If she is a tyrant then we have ourselves to thank for ever allowing congress to make it a possibility in the first place. We were warned for over 200 years by the founders about this.
Sure I understand you, you are very easy to understand, which causes me to repeat - you are long on heat and short on light.
Are you denying that Carter cut our military approximately in half - that it was in fact Ford who did that in his short term? Are you saying that Chaney was responsible ? If so, case closed.
...what do you think of Paul Weyrich now?
Thanks
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