WHY WE HATE BUSH (It's the Stolen Election, Stupid)

Yahoo News ^ | Thu, Sep 25, 2003 | Ted Rall

[xzins]

Those of us in flyover country and not in never-never land like Ted Rall who writes from New York (need I say anything else) doesn't have a clue that there's a whole America in between the NY and California.

I'll put him and Bush on a farm any day of the week. Bush will outwork and out-hustle this geek 24/7.

And Bush's degrees from Yale AND Harvard far outstrip anything accomplished by Gore, the hulking, sulking debater who invented the internet.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Wow. The man is mentally unhinged.

Was Rall the one who penned that disgusting cartoon with Bush flying into the twin towers?

[staytrue]

If arnold becomes CA governor, get ready for the same article only with the name changed.

[presidio9]

Why give Rall more exposure than he already gets...

For the same reasons I post Morford:
A) We waste our time if we sit around here only reading stuff that we all agree with.
B) The guy is such a goofy nutcase that most of the liberal lurkers who stop by are embarassed by him.
C) He scans this site periodically and he does care what you think.

Take your pick.

[Marauder]

Then they must really love Dean who was a Ski bum during Vietnam

I used to date a fairly staunch feminist, who, when I'd point out some (and there were many) inconsistency between something she'd said about women and something else about men, would respond with, "That's different."

Double standard, you know ...

[presidio9]

Was Rall the one who penned that disgusting cartoon with Bush flying into the twin towers?

Yep, and Yahoo published an article by him in March titled "Don't Support Or Troops," where he compared American soldiers to Nazi Stormtroopers. He suffers from fascinating delusions. Just remember that no matter how good or bad a job the President is doing there will always be a small precantage of brain-damaged irrationals.

[CaptainK]

Amazing, Bush is hated by RATS more than Nixon and Reagan. This should make the 2004 election interesting.

And notice, both got reelected in landslides. In the end, the Dem's all consuming pathology might bode well for Bush.

[Mo1]

Time to dust off the F word. "Whenever people start locking up enemies because of national security without much legal care, you are coming close [to fascism]," warns Robert Paxton, emeritus professor of history at Columbia University and author of the upcoming book "Fascism in Action." We're supposed to hate fascists--or has that changed because of 9/11?

Why is it that Libs care more about our enemies then they do about Americans??

[pogo101]

I suppose it's good news if Ted wants to insist on the following as "facts":

- that W is "effeminate";
- that Gore won,
---because, you see, Gore won in Florida;

etc. Good. The truth makes one free, but Rall is still in the chains of his favorite falsehoods.

[cyncooper]

to stop a ballot count that subsequent newspaper recounts proved he had lost.

Oh, the lies some whisper to themselves as they suck their thumbs and clutch their blankies round 'bout themselves in order to continue their insane delusions.

First, the ballots were counted and recounted, and so it was not a ballot "count" that was called over, but yet another recount.

And we can wait until the end of time, but Rall cannot produce ONE "newspaper recount", let alone the plural "recounts" that he uses, to show that George W. Bush lost. Not one.

As to a smug, effeminate frat boy who wouldn't recognize a hard day's work if it kicked him..., somebody please post a picture of Dubya and his chainsaw. LOL

[js1138]

I has nothing at all to do with being voted out of power in 2000 and having the vote extended to the Senate in 2002, nor does it have anything to do with the apparent certainty that 2004 will be a Republican rout. ;^)

[smith288]

You can NOT be serious!! Bush gets FACTS from all kinds of sources...why would he waste time reading second hand stuff??? That's the sign of a good manager and smart person. It would be like a CEO reading The National Enquirer.....geesh.

Yes, im serious. Bush is a big boy and can distiguish rags from quality news. I dont see why it is such a big deal to open up a newspaper with your cup of coffee in the morning and say "Yea, I sometimes look over the headlines..." (which I have to believe he does)

Sounds alot better than "No...I got people to do that". Just doesnt sound real plugged in to me. (yes, im still voting for him, just trying to view it from a middle-roader)

[cyncooper]

I find it discouraging that he needs to get fed news from his staff than get it himself.

He doesn't "need" to. He has bigger fish to fry and access to the real information that the papers turn around and misreport. His staff is there to tell him how the libs are spinning it and what the tone and such is. But when it comes to the news, he has the authentic sources and knows what's really going on.

[ravingnutter]

the draft-dodger who went AWOL during Vietnam yet sent other young men to die in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites)

That has been debunked: How to Answer the AWOL Accusation

the philandering cocaine addict

Ummm...I think he has his Presidents confused, the only proven philandering cocaine addict was Clinton . I have heard the cocaine charge before, but they have never produced proof. But philandering? Where did that charge come from and what is their proof?

who dares to call gays immoral

Ummm...maybe because they are, according to the Bible.

as well as for his attacks on peace and prosperity.

The only attacks on peace and prosperity have come from Al Qaeda.

[pogo101]

Bush ended all that, suing to stop a ballot count that subsequent newspaper recounts proved he had lost

Uhh, Ted???? Earth to Ted??? EVERY ONE of the NUMEROUS newspaper and academia recounts that I've seen -- NYTimes, WPost, Miami Herald, USA Today, U.of Miami ... all say that the Supremes' decision didn't matter because BUSH WOULD HAVE WON ANYWAY, even if the recount had gone on, and even if Gore's methods were used for chad-counting.

Ted. Put down the glass pipe.

[Kingasaurus]

When are these wack-jobs going to realize that losing a razor-thin-close election, while incredibly and deeply disappointing and depressing, does NOT mean the other guy cheated and you really won?

It means you lost by a hair-thin margin, and that's all it means.

[Mo1]

I find it discouraging that he needs to get fed news from his staff than get it himself. Middle of the road people will feel the same.

He gets a daily briefing of current events and threats to our country.

Why would he need to read articles like this?

I might add .. Clinton may have read all the gooing reports about him in the papers

But he never bothered to have time for the CIA Director to get daily briefings

[SwinneySwitch]

"Bush stole the presidency."

Ted, Algore lost Tennessee!

[Snuffington]

True, Democrats loathe Dubya with greater intensity than any Republican standard-bearer in modern political history.

What short memories these guys have. Recent Democrat history is chock-full of similar hatred. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were easily as loathed by Democrats. George H. W. Bush was only moderately less so.

I don't bother to ask why Democrats hate a particular Republican president. The hatred comes with the job. The reasons are manufactured as needed.

[Marauder]

the left still lacks a basic understanding

I don't think that's true; they know as well as anyone else that Gore was trying to steal the election, in cahoots with the SCOFFLAw liberal justices, and William Daly, son of the champion election-rigger of all time, "Hizzonner" Charles Daly, Sr.

What they're mad about - and won't admit to - is that the SCOTUS stopped that by making FLorida's vote-mining democRats play by the rules.

democRats have long sworn by Stalin's philosophy of counting the votes however they want to. I remember growing up in South Texas and hearing all the facts and figures surrounding LBJ's blatant theft of the 1948 US Senate election from "Coke" Stevenson, aided by El Patron George Parr, the infamous Duke of Duval County.