[lit-ideas] Re: The Bush Button
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:45:29 +0900
Hallelujah, brother Geary, Hallelujah!
John
On 3/2/06, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Eric:
> > I have several friends who HAVE to hate Bush--not merely strongly disagree
> > with individual policies, but actively hate Bush--and anything else is
> > apostasy, is tergiversation, is personal betrayal.
>
> I'm one of those Bush Haters. Not because I HAVE TO HATE HIM -- in fact, I
> don't even know what that means. I suppose you're saying that Bush Haters
> feel compelled to hate Bush by their peer group, that unless they speak the
> shibboleths of hate, they'll not be admitted into the hip scene which
> Lawrence Helm would call the
> Islamo-Terrorist-Marxist-Liberal-PussyWhipped-Peacenik-Chickenshitcowards
> (and have 873 authors to back him up, God bless him), but which I would call
> simply patriotic Americans with a modicum of social conscience. But maybe
> there's another reason some people hate Bush with such special virulence.
> Maybe some of us see the damage being done to what we assumed (perhaps
> naively) are the core values of America -- damage that seems to many of us
> as being close to irreparable. Maybe some of us see people like Dick Cheney
> and Tom Delay and the Enron Gang and the World Com Conmen, the Global
> Crossing Double-Crossers, and all the Blalocks and Jack Abramoffs buying off
> Congress, and all the unaccountable Andersen Accounting firms firming up
> phony profits and all the phony prophets of Islamic Armageddon as adjuncts
> to George W. Bush. The old part and parcel. Maybe because we see the
> Patriot Act as Fascism in Action, because we see Gitmo and Abu Ghraib as
> clones of the Gulag Archipelago, because we see the destruction of Social
> Security and Medicare and Medicaid as a plutocratic, orgiastic greed-grab,
> because we see in the Katrina response by the Bush Administration, not just
> unimaginable incompetence but criminal malfeasance and execrable
> indifference to the welfare of the ordinary citizens of this country. But
> mostly, I think, Bush Hatred is based, not their fouling of the domestic
> nest, but their policies of rank colonialism. The whole world told these
> stupid, stupid, stupid men NOT TO INVADE IRAQ but they (like Cheney said to
> Lehey) told the world: "Go fuck yourself." We know what was best for the
> us and the world.
>
> But, of course, it was Bush-Cheney who fucked everything up. Everything.
> Everything, everything, everything. Convince me of one thing they haven't
> fucked up and I'll kiss your ass. They are not just incompetent -- they're
> don't even KNOW they're incompetent. They're not just evil, they don't even
> KNOW they're evil -- although I'm not sure if you can be evil without
> knowing you're evil -- any help here, Phil?
>
> So anyway. Those are just a few of the reasons why I hate George W. Bush so
> much. I could go on for days but I have to get to another job. I hope this
> helps you in your quest to understand Bush Haters and their virulence --
> Bush and his ilk have done more damage to America than Osama Ben Laden ever
> dreamed of being able to do.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
> trying to clear the Bush
>
>
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