Why do they hate President Bush?

[HankReardon]

Seems like a simple question. The people I talk to cannot tell me why they hate him. And I think it is hate, they use words and phrases like "his daddy" and "bushies" in a very demeaning way. Also, some one asked me, why do they hate Bush, I did not know how to answer. I mean, the same people that can unconditionally love a President who tried to fix a U.S. court case against an American citizen are the often the same people who hate Bush. The same people who can for decades excuse a U.S. Senator for vehicle homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol are often the same people that hate Bush. How does President Bush merit this hatred?

[Bullish]

You supported the war in Kosovo which was a war in support of Albanian muslim invaders over a sovereign Christian nation?

Oh, I see.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually I think I agree w/you. I may have been too young, tho, to understand. But, it seemed to me there wasn't the real hatred until after we hated Clinton (w/good reason). And likewise recall that we didn't hate other Dem's like we did Clinton. Sometimes I think the Dem's are just backlashing against the hatred we had for a scumbag Commie mafia-boss like Clinton, just because. Regardless of whether the 2000 election was hair-close or not.

[mudblood]

Speaking of the interenet, perhaps that's the reason why things have escalated so far. You know how it goes in an argument; you say x, they say y. You YELL x, they YELL y. soon you are arguing about the other letters in the alphabet, someone pulls a gun and the rest gets lampooned on Leno.

[Rightone]

My 86 year old aunt hates GW for the same reasons. She doesn't like him because she says he acts like a cowboy and she also listens to the alphabet networks for all her news. She literally gets rabid when she disusses him.

[Lucky2]

Why do they hate President Bush you ask? Well it's one word, envy! He's done more for this country in 3 1/2 years than they could ever accomplish. Further, he's done right in the war on terrorism and they know it! Also, he's a good model for America, one that clinton, kerry, gore, kennedy could ever be. They hate him for his good morals, intellegence (which they keep knocking down) and his forth right attitude. May God bless President Bush, may God bless America!

[mudblood]

I supported protecting a group of defenseless people against a brutal dictator. I guess you don't see.

[Southack]

For one thing, they hate President Bush because they have no other way to counter his ideas (e.g. faith based charities, school choice vouchers, tax cuts, etc.). Democrats themselves have no new ideas after all (Roe v Wade has been around for more than 3 decades, for instance), which leaves them to make their opposition to Bush *personal*.

For another reason, they "hate" President Bush in order to try to cover up their own shortcomings. Bush has exposed them as cowtowing to the UN, as appeasers, and as people who have been willing to circumvent the law (Torricelli/Lautenberg, anyone!) whenever it suits them. Whereas Democrats just want to retreat into their comfy little shells where they do whatever Old Europe tells them is cool. Global warming is true, and we should just accept it.

Then Bush comes along and says "Question It." Suddenly we are "studying" Global Warming rather than simply signing foreign treaties like Kyoto on the subject.

And President Bush represents all that they oppose. He's for Boy Scouts and not "diversity" as a goal. He's for faith-based charity rather than for banning religion from even being mentioned publicly. Bush delivers tax cuts rather than the increases that they so want...after all, if the government spends more money then every problem can be solved (at least by their "logic").

Nor do they want Ashcroft enforcing our laws or for Conservative judges to actually rule based upon the law rather than upon some current fad or public sentiment.

They like Palestinians over Israelis. They want the World Court to prosecute U.S. soldiers.

They don't want Bush to permit the U.S. to tap more of our own oil (e.g. drilling in the ANWR) or to permit new genetically modified foods from being approved. They don't want new powerplants and they certainly don't want their ability to kill unborn children to be interfered with.

So they hate President Bush. Go figure...

[mudblood]

And they don't want America to continue being so successful. Its an embarassment to the broken promise of socialism, for one. For another it is the establishment that they, in general, have a beef with.

[Southack]

"My Mother 92yr God love her and she hates Pres.B. She cannot give me reasons..."

Lock out her ABC/CBS/NBC and CNN TV channels for a month. Block NPR from her radio. Cancel her newspaper subscription. I'd give her two weeks before she'd be back on our side.

It takes *constant* attacks by the Left to keep their support (and hatred) up. Even slight vacations from such attacks can break their spell on all but the hardened activists.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I don't know; we'll see. For now I can't drum up that hatred. Contempt, perhaps. Yes, there's some silly nastiness flying around, but I blame more the desparadoes trying to push Kerry into office than him himself. Besides that, I see all this "mean-spirited" campaigning as pretty normal.

[Ditter]

I have often wondered this myself. I think in part it comes from hatred of President Bush I. A liberal niece of mine, in college at the time of Bush I was consumed with hatred for him but would not say why. I imagine she hates Bush II.

[mudblood]

The desparadoes: now there's a thing that can cause a person to hate. Particularly when their campaign message is "anyone but Bush".

[anonymous86]

I've always wondered the same thing. Watching the guy on TV, I don't know how one could feel hate towards him. My mom is a liberal, and she says it's because of his "fiscal irresponsiblity" and how he "brings the bible into everything." But you know, Clinton was just as fiscally irresponsible. The only way he avoided the deficit was by robbing the citizens, which, as we know, led to a recession. Others hate him because of the Iraq War, but that argument goes down the tubes when they love Clinton, who led us into Kosovo. And liberals have no clue what our founding fathers had in mind conserning religion. They think they actually would have objected to any public display of Christianity.
I think the main reason is that he came in after their Clinton bubble was burst, and they don't agree with him, so they make up every excuse possible to find something to blame him for. If nothing else had gone wrong, they would be blaming him for their food tasting bad, and their girlfriend/boyfriend dumping them.

[Awgie]

In the mind of your typical liberal President Bush represents the 2 things that liberals hate most...1- Big Business, 2- Born-again Christians.

Both of these "bogeymen" make liberals insane. Package them into a republican president and liberals simply can't control their hatred.

[job]

I wholeheartedly agree, there is a huge cultural divide in this country, and I don't see it ever getting fixed. The leftists in this country are where most of Europe is now, no intrinsic values of right and wrong, no belief in G-d, the way to a better existence in this World is through social engineering, and economic reform.

Anyone on the otherside is a complete boob, and should be held in contempt, in their minds. The other side is marginalized, as is Bush.

When I hear people like Whoopi Goldberg make jokes about Scalia and Ashcroft, its clear she has little or no understanding of what these people do, or what was required of their talents and work ethic to get where they are today.

Scalia gets ridiculed because he is a practicing Catholic, and conservative generally, but you don't ever hear Whoopi talking about Scalia's dis-section of proximate cause and remote injuries in Holmes v. SIPC. Or what kind of achievements it took just to be considered to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Scalia is a brilliant jurist, he has few equals who can stand in the same sphere with him. And all Whoopi can do is crack a very hackneyed, unfunny predictable joke about him.

Similarly, the Halliburton issue is just something used because those people fall on the otherside. None of the celebrity critics ever discuss how the oil industry collapsed to the point where there are really no other companies such as Halliburton to do the jobs they were asked to do, on the scale required. Show me one celebrity critic who can point to another service company other than Halliburton that should have been picked.

Point is, the thought process required by the left is very shallow to trigger the contempt targeted at those on the right of the cultural divide. The present issues don't drive the contempt, they are just tools used to vent and express the contempt. Even after the issues are gone, the contempt will remain, because of the cultural divide.

[Bullish]

I supported protecting a group of defenseless people against a brutal dictator. I guess you don't see.

I guess you believe the lies of the so called "genocide" in Kosovo.

[MrB]

Reading that off DU, Polly?

Wanna cracker?

[the OlLine Rebel]

I wonder why our gasoline prices are sky-high more than ever now that we "control" that Iraqi oil?

Besides that, the truth is that Iraq is like a drop in the bucket of our oil consumption. Most is our own, a bit less from places like Venezuela and Canada (hhhmmmm, must be that ANWAR Alaska region that no1 wants to pump!), and then Saudi Arabia. Yup, if anything, we're PANDERING for oil.....

[mudblood]

This is worthy of a whole other thread - and possibly an evening of drinking and loud arguing. Lets agree that the other person is wrong and be done with it :)