Bush elected, Sept 11, Iraq mess, Katrina, Rita, bird flu - why does bad..

[FormerRepublican]

...stuff happen in clusters? And why has Bush seemed like an ill wind that moved over our country and turned optimism into a nightmare?

I'm getting tired of waking up and seeing the news and feeling nauseous. I don't like seeing people hurt. I don't like seeing Bush not care that people are hurt. And somehow in my mind Bush and all the bad stuff that keeps happening gets lumped together in my mind so I start thinking we could somehow recover and have something good happen again if we could just get Bush and his pals out of office.

I'm watching the news on Hurricane Rita and I feel sick. I'm watching the news on bird flu and, knowing that Bush would be in office if things get ugly, I feel even sicker. I have NO confidence in Bush whatsoever to do the right thing. The only thing I think I can count on him to do is to loot the government (which means us).

WHY, when we have all these bad things happening to us, are we stuck with that loser President who can't help but mismanage everything and make things worse than they already were?

I feel completely powerless with all the stuff that's happening. There was nothing I could do to stop Katrina from hurting all those people. There's nothing I can do to stop Rita or bird flu from hurting people (maybe even me). About the only thing I can do is think good thoughts.

Anybody got any ideas on how to handle the madness? Perhaps there are others out there struggling with what's coming down, too.

[sam sarrha]

1. he is a Jonah.. throw him over board... NOW.!!!

[Skink]

2. The first time I heard about the bird flu some ( whacko)...

was calling in to CSPAN and Brian what's his name cut him off.

[FormerRepublican]

4. The 5th person died in Indonesia in the most recent outbreak.

A little 5 year old girl. :(

Message boards are saying it might be spreading human to human because of the way it's clustering. That's not good for the pandemic outlook. Best case for bird flu was Viet Nam, and they had a 30% death rate. Not good.

And I keep thinking about Bush in charge in the midst of a pandemic, making everything worse and worse and worse - just like New Orleans. He turns a disaster into an unimaginable worst case catastrophe. Knowing Bush, he'd use a pandemic as an excuse to declare martial law and crown himself dictator. I don't trust him in an emergency. I simply DON'T trust that man.

[Skink]

7. You are right at the time I thought it was made up.

[The Traveler]

3. Cling to your humanity

Our ancestors laughed when spears were driven into their bowels, carved cities out of stone, conceived subtle cosmologies, wrote poetry the rings thousands of years later, confronted their bestiality in an attempt to become a better people.

We are here. We face dark times, and our own darkness ... as countless other have before us. There is no one else to do this for us. We must solve these puzzles, think and strive together. There is no one to do it for us.

I have been reading "Childe Roland from the Dark Tower Came" a lot lately. He who perseveres until the end shall achieve the reward.

[melody]

10. what a lovely post - well said n/t

[charlie]

5. He's KILLING the empiricist in me

I'm having moments where I actually consider Voodoo, bad juju, Cthulu cultism... any damned thing to make sense of the bad energy cloud that is Bush.

[OrlandoGator]

6. Tsunami, SARS, Columbia...

You missed a bunch.

Bush will forever be known as the Disaster President. Literally and figuratively.

[FormerRepublican]

8. It all blurs together in my mind - one big, stinking black cloud.

I remember how I felt when Clinton was President. I didn't have to worry much. The economy was good. I didn't hear rumors and threats everywhere. The most traumatic thing I saw was the terrorist attacks in Israel.

Then here comes Bush, and now we're living in one long, endless misery. Every day it's some new horror. And it's not a little horror, like the things that happen from time to time. It's some huge unimaginable thing that leaves me reeling in shock.

Like 9/11. Like Katrina - lord, I had thought the Tsunami was bad until I saw the aftermath of Katrina! Like Bush twisting the war on terror into his little revenge war.

I'm really serious when I say I think he turns a problem into a horror. Instead of solving problems, he multiplies and magnifies them until they get bigger and bigger and bigger. I'm getting tired of the escalating nightmare...

I need a quiet, safe place to hide out for the next 3 years.

[firefox]

9. Plenty of people are turning to their pills, bottles, and pot

Keyword is disillusionment. The reality-based community is in a hand to hand struggle to spread some truth in this country and as it spreads the feelings will change from disappointment and grief to outright disillusionment. People have lived with an illusion their whole lives regarding US perfection and now we will see disillusionment sweep over the country.

People cannot admit that they are wrong and now many will see that they have been wrong about things their whole life regarding their country and perhaps their religion. There is an emotional toll to this that goes unaddressed by government because they cannot even admit it is happening.

I have some expressions like Schedule One Lie, Free Cannabis For Everyone, We are ruled by treason, policy by mythology, the largest majority rule/s that I am proud of . But there is one expression that I have called my tombstone remark that can be found with an exact phrase search. That is "The hardest thing to say in life is I am wrong." The Republican Party will some day have to say this. The country is going to have to say this. But for now, there really are people that are suffering and will suffer with the most grand of disillusionments. It will be the hardest thing for people to say they are wrong, but once they say that they will have to admit that they have been wrong their whole life. It makes me wonder if the hardest thing to say in life is I have been wrong my whole life.

I know I could use some Free Cannabis all along and the only reason we do not have Free Cannabis is that WE ARE RULED BY TREASON and goddammit, I am not wrong.

[unhappycamper]

11. * is a shit magnet. n/t

[dbt]

12. The Earth Herself hates bu$h.

She knows that nobody can be as big a fuckup as he appears. She knows that it's all deliberate.

Remember New Orleans

[OrlandoGator]

13. Remember what Vonnegut said...

"Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, and rightfully so."

[Ganja Ninja]

14. I've been thinking about this and I think Bush is God's way of ...

mocking America. He's a practical joke. God has looked at us and heard all the talk about a Christian America and all the God/guns/guts/faith and so on and God is sick of it. George W Bush is the flaming bag of dog dew God left on our doorstep.

[pepperlove]

15. * is

satan's spawn, that's why and was created for this day of evil.

[mikelewis]

16. Did God create man or did man create God?

Is Bush the malady that we suffer as a nation or is he merely a symptom that has developed over years of neglect? When a Democracy is abandoned by its people, some other form of government will take its place. We live in a country that is supposedly trying to spread Democracy to the world and yet just over 50% of the people in this country vote. The majority of people know more about their local sports team than their congress-critters or Senators. I believe George Bush is going to be good for America, in the long run. Not because he's a great President but because he has awakened the sleeping giant yet again. On 9/11, they got their "New Pearl Harbor" but we are finally waking from the dream of the 90's to the fear induced nightmare of a new form of government trying to take hold of our country. Bush will ultimately fail and the damage will be great but we will rebuild and be stronger for it. Scar tissue is much tougher than new born skin.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. You left out what he did to Haiti..... nt