Could you personally ever show any sympathy for George W Bush?

[kentuck]

He makes it very difficult. Because he is such a spiteful and petty person himself, nothing he has done warrants any sympathy. If the shoe were on the other foot, you would get no sympathy from him. He doesn't believe in that kind of liberal bullshit. Every man for himself. Remember how he laughed at that lady on death row? No sympathy from George Dubya... He deserves none in return.

[LiberalVoice]

1. I'll never say never.

We'll just have to wait and see.

[tuvor]

2. He's been blessed in every way possible.

Can't feel sorry for the master of the squander.

[driver8]

3. Never, Never, Never!!! There is no way I would ever have

sympathy for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove, Wolfowitz, Libby, Powell, and the rest of the crooks in this organization.

As a matter of fact, I cannot wait until these people get the karma that is headed their way. There will be no tears from me, I assure you.

[ClusterFreak]

4. Well...perhaps if he had his head stuck in a tiger's mouth or something...

....nah, fuck it.

[speedoo]

5. I can't imagine any circumstance. nm

nm

[alittlelark]

6. He is a deplorable 'human being'.

I could rant on for quite some time about his failings, but we are all aware of them here.


If I had the appropriate body parts I WOULD piss on him if he were on fire.....

But that's the furthest I could go in empathy.

[longship]

7. Sorry, George.

Nope. Not with what he has done.
Not even one shred of sympathy.

[mcctatas]

8. I might be persuaded to muster a little pity....

nah, I wouldn't even cross the street to pee on him if his head was on fire.:smoke:

[FloridaPat]

9. There's the joke about being a news photographer in the middle of

a flood. * is hanging onto a log and will be swept downstream shortly. Your choices are to save * or take a Puliter Prize photograph. I'm really into photography.

[blue sky at night]

10. I was thinking tonight if I ever had him within earshot........

I would go nuts, yelling and cussing at him until they dragged me away screaming and kicking. I hate that weasel-faced fuck so bad, I never thought I could hate anyone more than I hated Nixon, then Reagan......but he is the epitome of, the king of, the emperor of asshole bastards.

[grytpype]

11. If he started crying and begging for forgiveness.

Maybe then.

[sasha031]

15. NEVER EVER

:puke: :puke: IT WOULD BE AN ACT

[LeFleur1]

17. Sympathy For Bush?

Nope.
I might understand his position, but I have to get on with my life.

[MiniMe]

48. Not even then for me

It would be a contrived act because he got caught at something and he was trying to weasel his way out of it.

[LandOLincoln]

12. You're kidding, right? n/t

[gratuitous]

13. You know, at the end of Star Wars Episode III?

Anikin jumps at Obiwan, who hacks off his legs and leaves him at the edge of the lava flow, crippled. Anikin struggles ahead an inch or two, then the heat from the lava ignites him.

If George W. Bush was in a similar situation, crippled and on fire, I'd like to think I'm a compassionate enough person that I wouldn't turn my back on him, as Obiwan did to Anikin. I would hope that I'd have what it takes . . .

to piss on him if he was on fire.

[papercut]

14. Nope.

[marbuc]

16. On some level

I feel sorry for him for being too stupid to realize just how evil many in his administration are, but then I remember that he just doesn't care, and is in many ways knowingly complicit. I am picturing Bush as Beavis in my head; whenever Cheney et al propose an idea he says "yeah, yeah, that's cool "

[Lars39]

18. I feel sorry for the way he was raised.

Now I feel sorry for the world. :(

[mitchum]

19. Not in a million fucking years

He is contemptible

[madmax]

20. Never, never, ever

I'd rather eat my own guts. I despise him for what he's done to our country and out troops. He makes me ill. I can't explain it but, from the first time I heard him speak I got knots in my stomach and some very very bad feelings about him.

I wasn't into politics then and when I heard bits and pieces about bush being a candidate I thought, 'Bush can run again!? He was just President 8 years ago. That's how little I knew about the bushwackers. Find out it's his son and the dim one, yet! :mad:

That's when I started to pay real close attention to the campaign of 2000 and haven't stopped since. The USSC broke my heart and caused me to lose complete faith in the Court and our government in general.

Thanks to Skinner, Elad, and Earl G, I was looking for a place like DU to find out information because I didn't quite believe the 4th Estate. doh!

During the campaign the only source I found that afforded some dialogue was the Washington Post Messageboard. Loaded with pukes and Clinton haters and a few very knowledgeable Dems. Ok, I'm rambling.

[PatrioticLeftie]

21. After all the crap he's done

I could never forgive him

[NV Whino]

22. NO.

76. bush

Love reading all these juicy adjectives.

kick:kick:

[unrepuke]

23. When the time comes, may I throw the switch? Please?

There could be a lottery for that.

Many tickets would be sold.:evilgrin:

[yorkiemommie1]

24. never. ever.

n/t

[yojon]

25. Not even if he were on the end of a rope in the Hague

[jaysunb]

26. No

not in this life. :evilfrown:

[Wizard777]

27. LMAO! No sympathy for the Devil Ahriman Az Bushyasta!

Ahriman, The Destroyer
Az, The demon of greed.
Bushyasta, The demon of sloth.

Yeah I know your name.

[windbreeze]

28. Until I read this.....a little squeaking maybe...now...uh uh

http://tinyurl.com/c3asl (hope it works)


windbreeze

[kestrel91316]

29. Not as long as I draw breath. I remember what he said about Karla Fay.

[Digit]

30. Not considering how much pain he has caused to others...

Plus his arrogance just galls me.

[Neshanic]

31. uh....no.

[LibDemAlways]

32. Hell, no.

That's like asking if I could scrounge up any sympathy for Hitler.
Mass murderers deserve only scorn, derision, and long prison sentences.

[imax2268]

33. I agree...

HELL NO...

[NEOBuckeye]

34. "Fool me once... Shame on... shame on me?"

"You fool me--can't get fooled again!"

I say let the silver-spooned spoiled bastard rot in federal prision for the rest of his pathetic life. When Daddy and his buddies can't help him out of trouble any longer, then and only then MIGHT he have a chance to learn his lessons and come to genuinely realize how much suffering and pain he has caused so many people. And that's only if he doesn't have a total nervous breakdown.

Even then, I don't know that I could ever feel sorry for him.

I have no such doubts, however, about Bush Sr., or Cheney and Rumsfeld. They're on par with Adolph Hitler as far as I'm concerned. Sick, sick men who would slit their own mothers' throats for a dime. They are evil at its absolute worst.

[opihimoimoi]

35. He talks like shit, stoops on the podium like shit, thinks like shit

Damn, even smells like shit

Now, lately, he looks like shit....

He IS SHIT

[CityDem]

36. NO!

He has live a privileged life and has screwed up at every turn. Not only has he screwed up his own life, he has destroyed the lives of thousands of people. Just ask Cindy Sheehan.

[allalone]

37. no

[fujiyama]

38. Difficult to have any sympathy for megalomaniacal sociopaths

Although I think petty and spiteful are also two good ways of describing him.

[demzilla]

39. If Bush and my neighbor's ugly dog were drowning in a lake

I'd save the dog, and if there was time left over, I'd go for a leisurely swim.

[Nothing Without Hope]

40. He was raised in an awful family and is deteriorating mentally now. He is

way over his head and in some dim way maybe he knows it. But many, many people have far more difficult lives, including the ones whose lives were made so by him. And there are many others who have no life at all because of him.

I will find it easier to feel some distant compassion for him AFTER he is no longer actively working to destroy everything decent and good in the world. I don't want to feel hate even for him because it hurts ME, but it's difficult not to.

I don't wish some terrible, painful thing to happen to him. (Though the best-guess diagnosis of his deterioration is presenile dementia, which is progressive.) I just want him out of power and away from where he can do any more harm. It pains me to even think of him, with all the harm he is causing and the vicious way he enjoys it. He's like a focus of spewing malice and violence, though truly there is a criminal cabal of people who are the ones actually running things while Bush has his physically comfortable life.

He needs to be kept isolated from anyone he could harm. A jail cell would be a good place.

In situations like this, the concept of karmic debt and rebirth to learn lessons en route to enlightenment would be a comforting belief. If I believed this, and if I could bear thinking of the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wolfowitz and the others any more than absolutely necessary, it might be entertaining to imagine what future lives they might have to further their educations in ethics and compassion.

[Richard Steele]

41. YES. The same "sympathy" I have for any other RABID animal.

[AtomicKitten]

42. Zip, Nada, Goose-Egg

[NoPasaran]

43. Nope. Just Sympathy for the Devil. None for his hired hands. n/t

[Lochloosa]

44. None..won't happen..may he burn in Hell..(if I believed in Hell)

[Vinca]

45. No. If his dog died I'd feel sorry for the dog, that's about it. nt

[HughBeaumont]

46. If he were dropped in a running helicopter blade

I would throw a three day celebration.

Pieces of sociopath shit like him don't deserve a shred of feeling from anyone.

[devinsgram]

47. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Why, because has never had it for anyone ever.

[Libby2]

49. No

This monster deserves whatever he gets.
He's a cruel, heartless bastard.

[mwb970]

50. "Spiteful" is a good word to choose.

He seems like a thoroughly unpleasant little runt to me. The arrogance and the constant smirk are intolerable. I really hate the way he talks to his audiences as if they are 10, while often sounding like a nervous, foolish 16-year-old himself.

No, no sympathy, although I do feel these things:

"abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bete noire, black beast, bother, bugbear, destination, detestation, disgust, dislike, dog-eye, enmity, execration, frost, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, malignity, mislike, nasty look, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, shudders, spite, trouble, venom."

(synonyms for "hate" from thesaurus.com)

[kentuck]

51. Are we heartless and cruel for having such feeling about the leader...?

of the free world? :) Maybe Limbaugh will expound on this phenomena?

[Roland99]

52. If I saw him struggling to stay afloat in a lake, I would:

take some video and some pictures as he sank below the surface for the last time.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

53. Right after I feel sorry for Hitler and Stalin, he's evil and causes harm.

[Bluerthanblue]

54. um.... i can..... and flame away....

.... but i do feel very sorry for him as a human being. Regardless of his motives, or his unspeakable crimes against everything he has touched,- (and i'm AWARE of the damage he has done)... i do feel a sorrow, that he is a fellow human being- and has so little... control, or ..insight... or empathy in himself, that he can do what he does, and not want to commit suicide.

No conscience? or so deeply in denial, or so narcissistic, that he cannot see the blood on his hands, and the mess he has made. I can only speak for myself- but i have ...'loved'... 2 people who were of similar personalities, with FAR less power. And i couldn't help feeling so sad that they were who they were, and would have to some day live, or die with that history.- Would anyone who was actually 'sane' ever choose to do what he has done????

Please don't see this as any kind of 'justification'- but along with the rage, disgust, and hate i feel for him,- or more accurately for what he has 'gotten away with' - i feel so glad that i can see him for what he is, sorry that he is the way he is, and frustrated that i can't stop him, or wake him up.-

Maybe that's why i've had the life i have- i'm a sucker for lost causes.

He DOESN'T deserve 'sympathy' Kentuck, you are completely right, but i don't deserve anything i've gotten either, - the good, or the bad.

peace-
it's ok to hate me for this stand. I don't know why i can't stop empathizing.

[kentuck]

55. Thanks for picking out the word "deserve"....

That was my word of choice. I don't think he is deserving of any sympathy either but liberals have been known to feel "sympathy" for the worst of human kind and GWBush may fit into that category, if I may be so judgemental...

[Bluerthanblue]

58. Kentuck,

i hope you don't see my perspective as anything but the skewed view of a person who comes from a 'wierd place'- I'm not calling you judgemental AT ALL- you have every right to feel as you do, and everyone else here, and to a great degree share the feelings, it is just as i ...turn away, or imagine myself BEING bush, i can't help but feel like- "oh GOD, what have i done"-

I needed to adopt this view, so that i could allow myself to feel love for my mother, forgiveness of my ex husband, and most importantly, forgiveness of myself, for the things i have allowed, encouraged, and done in my own life. I think the best thing that could ever happen for bush, is that he live long enough to understand what he has done, and longer still to have to feel the remorse, perhaps even long enough to speak out about why the way he lived and things he did were so wrong.-

eternal sunshine of a not so spotless mind?

[kentuck]

61. Oh, I was not being critical...

nor did I think you were being judgemental. I appreciate your viewpoint. More than you know. :)

[Bluerthanblue]

62. thanks, and thanks :-) n/t

.

[whatever4]

56. No

Prison or execution. He deserves nothing else. After a trial, a trial more fair than anything he'd afford anyone else. I feel sympathy for him the same way I feel sympathy for any living organism, but only for the living organism that is his person, it's little animal pieces that make up our bodies in total...not for his spirit overall.

In most ways, he's already dead. Just taking trying to take us all along with him. Like any good totalitarian ruler.

[npincus]

57. No, NEVER. Not ever.

[DinahMoeHum]

59. At this point, only G*d can forgive him. I cannot.

sorry as hell.

:evilfrown:

[McCamy Taylor]

60. Sure, if he was injured in an accident or his wife died or something.

[cyn2]

65. If he were wounded and lying at my feet

[sepia_steel]

63. emapathy, on some things, is as far as it could ever go.

I have never hated a person before. He's the first. I will never forgive him.

[TriMetFan]

64. I could never feel sorry for him.

If anything this man so be hung up on a tree by his big toes in Iraq and every one that has lost their child because of him should be able to throw a stone at him.

66. sympathy for bush

People voted for this guy. I actually put the responsibility for what goes on, onto those who voted for him. I guess a lot of rich people like him for keeping them rich, and he has conned the rest. Should there be sympathy for people who are so easily conned?

To irresponsbily start a war has got to be one of man's worse crimes. Maybe if he went to Iraq and fought side by side with the men there, I might have a little respect for him, but not sympathy.

[greenbriar]

67. no, if he were lying on the sidewalk I would piss on him and I am a she

I hate that fucker with all I have

[mtnsnake]

74. if any of the bushes were lying on the sidewalk with their ass on fire

I wouldn't piss on them to put the fire out!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

68. yeah when they drag him from his spider hole like Saddam.....

only then might i be able muster up a smiddgen of sympthy for him like i did for saddam

[area51]

69. HELL, NO! (n/t)

[AuntPatsy]

70. Knowing so much more about the person rather than the image..

I would have to say no. Its pretty hard to care about someone who obviously shows little caring for others other than in his prepared speeches written by another.

[KansDem]

71. NO

:grr:

[stevedeshazer]

72. YES. He is a fellow human being who needs help!

And I would love to help KICK HIS ASS.

[opihimoimoi]

73. Look at the evidence...HE IS THE ENEMY...posing as our President.

he has done more harm to America than any other president we had...

He is EVIL trying to pass as GOODNESS...it workin, ya can fool the peeps only for a brief period....then they catch on to the scam..and ...VOILA...Poof....Gone.....

Forgive? Did anyone forgive Idi Amin, Hitler, Mousollini???

[noonriser]

75. If he were on fire, I wouldn't waste my spit on him.

:mad:

[bearfan454]

77. Never. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.