Close Look at a Focused President (Liberal "scholars" assess his Presidency)

Washington Post ^ | 04/27/03 | Mike Allen

[Pokey78]

In Reviews, Scholars Cite Bush's Discipline But Question Policies

PRINCETON, N.J., April 26 -- President Bush has not been particularly friendly to historians: He signed an executive order making it easier for officials to classify documents, gave former presidents a veto over the release of their papers, and in most cases allows his staff to give only the most sanitized accounts of life in his White House.

But the 43rd president is providing rich fodder for those historians, offering a colorful and elusive target for a raft of professors trying to explain how a semi-prepared Texan, armed with simple eloquence and prickly certitude, managed to elevate the office but alienate much of the world after the catastrophe of Sept. 11, 2001.

[Cicero]

When Princeton offered a distinguished professorship to a man who advocates child murder and bestiality, they lost their credibility as a home for scholarship and moral sanity.

[thinktwice]

If anyone thinks this anti-Bush liberal attitude will change with time, it won't.

All you have to do is look at any irrational ideology to realize that truth based in reality means nothing to them.

What does mean something to the irrational is the essence of evil -- thinking hate is a virtue.

It is hatred that makes liberals feel good about themselves.

[Savage Beast]

You're absolutely right, TT. "Liberalism" is fueled by anger and hatred. "Liberals" are blinded by them.

[Southack]

The nakedly partisan media launches yet another attack on Bush.

Yawn.

And they'll do so again tomorrow, and that day after that, and the day after that and the day after...

ZZZZzzzzz

Wake me when our mainstream media catches up to mainstreet America.

[lurky]

It is hatred that makes liberals feel good about themselves.

It is hatred that makes people feel good about themselves.

[lurky]

What are you sleeping for? Go read WashTimes or watch FoxNews/MSNBC.

These whines of media bias (from both sides) are childish self-victimizations and are getting really stale and boring. Get over it and educate yourself from someplace you like. You're here at FR, aren't you?

[mikegi]

Is this supposed to be an opinion piece or a news article? I like the fair and balanced "a semi-prepared Texan". Wow, the Leftists must really be worried about 2004. They can't even hide their vicious hatred of Bush & Co.

BTW, Bush41 failed to win reelection in 1992, not 1998, but hey who cares about facts when you're writing a hit piece disguised as news!

[cardinal4]

I read the whole article. Like Baghdad Bob, these guys are in complete denial. They hate Bush and a conservative America so much, they are now having seminars to convince themselves that they are right. It seems the main thrust of the article was alienating the rest of the World. Most Americans no longer care about offending the World when it comes to our terrorism defences. These libs,(Brookings, etc.) still believe that liberalism works. I have news for them; liberalism died at 0847 am on the morning of September 11th, 2001.

[thinktwice]

It is hatred that makes people feel good about themselves.

Hatred is considered acceptable by those taught to hate.

Virtues and vices, "ethics" so to speak, are learned things that reflect philosophies, and emotional responses can be seen to refect a person's ethics. Some people feel good, for instance, while saying and doing things steeped in envy and hate.

Have you ever noticed that the "messages" from socialist politicians are laced with envy and hate?

You'll probably agree that Socialism describes the politics inherent in the Democratic party, and now might be the time to start realizing that Capitalism describes the politics inherent in the Republican party.

Socialism as a political/economic system has proven to be disastrous and bad for people -- there is evil in it, that evil is taught extensively, and that evil is generally reflected in terms of envy, spite and hate.

Capitalism as a political/economic system has proven to be a wealth producion engine and good for people -- there is virtue in it, and that virtue is usually reflected in good will, generosity and magnanimity.

Philosophically, the words best describing Democratic and Republican politics, respectively, are Socialism and Capitalism.

[Savage Beast]

"Have you ever noticed that the "messages" from socialist politicians are laced with envy and hate?"

Yes. And such people can be unbelievably cruel.

[lurky]

Hey, I don't disagree with anything you said (mostly). My point was that hatred cuts both ways, for people on the left and the right. Twas all.