I especially dislike Barbara. Perhaps you don’t remember, but about Palin, she said that she thinks that she’s very pretty and then added with a self-satisfied chuckle that she should stay in Alaska. Far be it from Mrs. Quaker Oats to tell anybody where (s)he ought to stay or what (s)he ought to do. I like W, but dislike his brother, his parents and other associated relatives.
I remember when Barbara basically suggested Palin should stay the hell up in Alaska. I think that was the moment I really began to truly, truly despise the whole Bush family. I’d already been extremely vexed over W’s maddening unwillingness to defend himself or his policies, and even more disgusted by his smugness when trying to push through amnesty and maligning the citizen ‘minutemen’ trying to stop the lawless invasion of illegals.
But, it was that interview with Barbara that really did it for me. Ten years ago, I never would have predicted that the sight of a Bush’s face on my tv-screen would elicit the kind of combined anger-and-nausea that I’ve always gotten from the sight of Bill Clinton... but it now does. In spades.
"But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you."
Matthew 5:44